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Exchanging md5s between Perl and Cby damian45 (Novice) |
on Oct 28, 2010 at 18:52 UTC ( [id://868117]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
damian45 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
hi monks
I have a C app and a Perl app that I want to be able to exchange md5s for the same string data. I've noticed that Digest::MD5's implementation of the standard rfc1321 version, produces different md5s that most other rfc1321 implementations (like those off http://userpages.umbc.edu/~mabzug1/cs/md5/md5.html) . For example most C md5 implementations I've tried give 60b725f10c9c85c70d97880dfe8191b3 for 'a' (ex echo 'a' | md5sum) Digest::MD5's implementation gives 0cc175b9c0f1b6a831c399e269772661
I've seen this behavoir on 64 and 32 bit machines (this is linux platform).
that utility does not give that md5 anymore however, it gives 60b725f10c9c85c70d97880dfe8191b3 It seems the perl implementation is the non standard one at this point. Trying to avoid getting heavily into the perl XS implementation to try and figure out how to make it produce the same md5s as all the other implementations. Anyone know if there's anything simple to tweak in it, to get it to produce the more common md5s? I've experimented a bit with linking against MD5.so and calling things direct but that was getting quite ugly. I don't really care which md5 I get, they just need to match between perl and my C app (without the user having to install a custom perl module or something). cheers for any help
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