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Creating MD5 digests with Ruby Posted: Feb 9, 2007 5:19 AM
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MD5 is a one-way hashing algorithm for creating digest "signatures" or checksums of strings (usually entire files). Ruby���s standard library includes MD5 as part of the Digest:: set of extension classes. Creating MD5 checksums is a simple matter of requiring the digest/md5 library and using either the Digest::MD5.digest or Digest::MD5.hexdigest class methods to return the digest of a given string - we will use hexdigests in this article as they are printable

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