Calculate MD5 of a string in C++

Question

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.

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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.

Answer 1

You are passing a final newline to the md5sum program, but not to your code.

You can see that the bash <<< operator adds a newline:

$ od -ta <<<Hello
0000000   H   e   l   l   o  nl
0000006

To avoid this, use printf:

$ printf '%s' Hello | od -ta
0000000   H   e   l   l   o
0000005
$ printf '%s' Hello | md5sum
8b1a9953c4611296a827abf8c47804d7  -

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Alternatively, you could include a newline in your program version:

std::string str("Hello\n");