How can I generate an MD5 hash?

Question

Is there any method to generate MD5 hash of a string in Java?

Answer 1

There is a DigestUtils class in Spring also:

http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/javadoc-api/org/springframework/util/DigestUtils.html

This class contains the method md5DigestAsHex() that does the job.

Answer 2

import java.security.MessageDigest

val digest = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5")

//Quick MD5 of text
val text = "MD5 this text!"
val md5hash1 = digest.digest(text.getBytes).map("%02x".format(_)).mkString

//MD5 of text with updates
digest.update("MD5 ".getBytes())
digest.update("this ".getBytes())
digest.update("text!".getBytes())
val md5hash2 = digest.digest().map(0xFF & _).map("%02x".format(_)).mkString

//Output
println(md5hash1 + " should be the same as " + md5hash2)

Answer 3

Unlike PHP where you can do an MD5 hashing of your text by just calling md5 function ie md5($text), in Java it was made little bit complicated. I usually implemented it by calling a function which returns the md5 hash text. Here is how I implemented it, First create a function named md5hashing inside your main class as given below.

public static String md5hashing(String text)
    {   String hashtext = null;
        try 
        {
            String plaintext = text;
            MessageDigest m = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
            m.reset();
            m.update(plaintext.getBytes());
            byte[] digest = m.digest();
            BigInteger bigInt = new BigInteger(1,digest);
            hashtext = bigInt.toString(16);
            // Now we need to zero pad it if you actually want the full 32 chars.
            while(hashtext.length() < 32 ){
              hashtext = "0"+hashtext;   
            }
        } catch (Exception e1) 
        {
            // TODO: handle exception
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,e1.getClass().getName() + ": " + e1.getMessage());   
        }
        return hashtext;     
    }

Now call the function whenever you needed as given below.

String text = textFieldName.getText();
String pass = md5hashing(text);

Here you can see that hashtext is appended with a zero to make it match with md5 hashing in PHP.

Answer 4

Found this:

public String MD5(String md5) {
   try {
        java.security.MessageDigest md = java.security.MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
        byte[] array = md.digest(md5.getBytes());
        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
        for (int i = 0; i < array.length; ++i) {
          sb.append(Integer.toHexString((array[i] & 0xFF) | 0x100).substring(1,3));
       }
        return sb.toString();
    } catch (java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
    }
    return null;
}

on the site below, I take no credit for it, but its a solution that works! For me lots of other code didnt work properly, I ended up missing 0s in the hash. This one seems to be the same as PHP has. source: http://m2tec.be/blog/2010/02/03/java-md5-hex-0093

Answer 5

private String hashuj(String dane) throws ServletException{
    try {
        MessageDigest m = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
        byte[] bufor = dane.getBytes();
        m.update(bufor,0,bufor.length);
        BigInteger hash = new BigInteger(1,m.dige`enter code here`st());
        return String.format("%1$032X", hash);

    } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException nsae) {
        throw new ServletException("Algorytm szyfrowania nie jest obsługiwany!");
    }
}

Answer 6

You might also want to look at the DigestUtils class of the apache commons codec project, which provides very convenient methods to create MD5 or SHA digests.