I have a nice example of memory mapped files that calculates the MD5 hash of a file. That works fine with no problems.
I would like to change it to calculate the MD5 hash of a string.
So the example is:
(include #include <openssl/md5.h>
to run this code, and also boost stuff if you want to run the one with the file)
unsigned char result[MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH];
boost::iostreams::mapped_file_source src(path);
MD5((unsigned char*)src.data(), src.size(), result);
std::ostringstream sout;
sout<<std::hex<<std::setfill('0');
for(long long c: result)
{
sout<<std::setw(2)<<(long long)c;
}
return sout.str();
The change I made is:
std::string str("Hello");
unsigned char result[MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH];
MD5((unsigned char*)str.c_str(), str.size(), result);
std::ostringstream sout;
sout<<std::hex<<std::setfill('0');
for(long long c: result)
{
sout<<std::setw(2)<<(long long)c;
}
return sout.str();
But this produces the result:
8b1a9953c4611296a827abf8c47804d7
While the command $ md5sum <<< Hello
gives the result:
09f7e02f1290be211da707a266f153b3
Why don't the results agree? Which one is wrong?
Thanks.
EDIT:
So I got the right answer which is ticked down there. The correct way to call md5sum
from terminal is:
$ printf '%s' "Hello" | md5sum
To avoid the new line being included.