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6 Digest::MD5 - Perl interface to the MD5 Algorithm
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9 # Functional style
10 use Digest::MD5 qw(md5 md5_hex md5_base64);
11 $digest = md5($data);
13 $digest = md5_hex($data);
14 $digest = md5_base64($data);
15 # OO style
17 use Digest::MD5;
18 $ctx = Digest::MD5->new;
20 $ctx->add($data);
22 $ctx->addfile($file_handle);
23 $digest = $ctx->digest;
25 $digest = $ctx->hexdigest;
26 $digest = $ctx->b64digest;
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29 The "Digest::MD5" module allows you to use the RSA Data Security Inc.
30 MD5 Message Digest algorithm from within Perl programs. The algorithm
31 takes as input a message of arbitrary length and produces as output a
32 128-bit "fingerprint" or "message digest" of the input.
33 Note that the MD5 algorithm is not as strong as it used to be. It has
35 since 2005 been easy to generate different messages that produce the
36 same MD5 digest. It still seems hard to generate messages that produce
37 a given digest, but it is probably wise to move to stronger algorithms
38 for applications that depend on the digest to uniquely identify a
39 message.
40 The "Digest::MD5" module provide a procedural interface for simple use,
42 as well as an object oriented interface that can handle messages of
43 arbitrary length and which can read files directly.
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46 The following functions are provided by the "Digest::MD5" module. None
47 of these functions are exported by default.
48 md5($data,...)
50 This function will concatenate all arguments, calculate the MD5
51 digest of this "message", and return it in binary form. The
52 returned string will be 16 bytes long.
53 The result of md5("a", "b", "c") will be exactly the same as the
55 result of md5("abc").
56 md5_hex($data,...)
58 Same as md5(), but will return the digest in hexadecimal form. The
59 length of the returned string will be 32 and it will only contain
60 characters from this set: '0'..'9' and 'a'..'f'.
61 md5_base64($data,...)
63 Same as md5(), but will return the digest as a base64 encoded
64 string. The length of the returned string will be 22 and it will
65 only contain characters from this set: 'A'..'Z', 'a'..'z',
66 '0'..'9', '+' and '/'.
67 Note that the base64 encoded string returned is not padded to be a
69 multiple of 4 bytes long. If you want interoperability with other
70 base64 encoded md5 digests you might want to append the redundant
71 string "==" to the result.
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74 The object oriented interface to "Digest::MD5" is described in this
75 section. After a "Digest::MD5" object has been created, you will add
76 data to it and finally ask for the digest in a suitable format. A
77 single object can be used to calculate multiple digests.
78 The following methods are provided:
80 $md5 = Digest::MD5->new
82 The constructor returns a new "Digest::MD5" object which
83 encapsulate the state of the MD5 message-digest algorithm.
84 If called as an instance method (i.e. $md5->new) it will just reset
86 the state the object to the state of a newly created object. No
87 new object is created in this case.
88 $md5->reset
90 This is just an alias for $md5->new.
91 $md5->clone
93 This a copy of the $md5 object. It is useful when you do not want
94 to destroy the digests state, but need an intermediate value of the
95 digest, e.g. when calculating digests iteratively on a continuous
96 data stream. Example:
97 my $md5 = Digest::MD5->new;
99 while (<>) {
100 $md5->add($_);
101 print "Line $.: ", $md5->clone->hexdigest, "\n";
102 }
103 $md5->add($data,...)
105 The $data provided as argument are appended to the message we
106 calculate the digest for. The return value is the $md5 object
107 itself.
108 All these lines will have the same effect on the state of the $md5
110 object:
111 $md5->add("a"); $md5->add("b"); $md5->add("c");
113 $md5->add("a")->add("b")->add("c");
114 $md5->add("a", "b", "c");
115 $md5->add("abc");
116 $md5->addfile($io_handle)
118 The $io_handle will be read until EOF and its content appended to
119 the message we calculate the digest for. The return value is the
120 $md5 object itself.
121 The addfile() method will croak() if it fails reading data for some
123 reason. If it croaks it is unpredictable what the state of the
124 $md5 object will be in. The addfile() method might have been able
125 to read the file partially before it failed. It is probably wise
126 to discard or reset the $md5 object if this occurs.
127 In most cases you want to make sure that the $io_handle is in
129 "binmode" before you pass it as argument to the addfile() method.
130 $md5->add_bits($data, $nbits)
132 $md5->add_bits($bitstring)
133 Since the MD5 algorithm is byte oriented you might only add bits as
134 multiples of 8, so you probably want to just use add() instead.
135 The add_bits() method is provided for compatibility with other
136 digest implementations. See Digest for description of the
137 arguments that add_bits() take.
138 $md5->digest
140 Return the binary digest for the message. The returned string will
141 be 16 bytes long.
142 Note that the "digest" operation is effectively a destructive,
144 read-once operation. Once it has been performed, the "Digest::MD5"
145 object is automatically "reset" and can be used to calculate
146 another digest value. Call $md5->clone->digest if you want to
147 calculate the digest without resetting the digest state.
148 $md5->hexdigest
150 Same as $md5->digest, but will return the digest in hexadecimal
151 form. The length of the returned string will be 32 and it will only
152 contain characters from this set: '0'..'9' and 'a'..'f'.
153 $md5->b64digest
155 Same as $md5->digest, but will return the digest as a base64
156 encoded string. The length of the returned string will be 22 and
157 it will only contain characters from this set: 'A'..'Z', 'a'..'z',
158 '0'..'9', '+' and '/'.
159 The base64 encoded string returned is not padded to be a multiple
161 of 4 bytes long. If you want interoperability with other base64
162 encoded md5 digests you might want to append the string "==" to the
163 result.
164 @ctx = $md5->context
166 $md5->context(@ctx)
167 Saves or restores the internal state. When called with no
168 arguments, returns a 3-element list: number of blocks processed, a
169 16-byte internal state buffer, then up to 63 bytes of unprocessed
170 data. When passed those same arguments, restores the state. This
171 is only useful for specialised operations.
172
174 The simplest way to use this library is to import the md5_hex()
175 function (or one of its cousins):
176 use Digest::MD5 qw(md5_hex);
178 print "Digest is ", md5_hex("foobarbaz"), "\n";
179 The above example would print out the message:
181 Digest is 6df23dc03f9b54cc38a0fc1483df6e21
183 The same checksum can also be calculated in OO style:
185 use Digest::MD5;
187 $md5 = Digest::MD5->new;
189 $md5->add('foo', 'bar');
190 $md5->add('baz');
191 $digest = $md5->hexdigest;
192 print "Digest is $digest\n";
194 With OO style, you can break the message arbitrarily. This means that
196 we are no longer limited to have space for the whole message in memory,
197 i.e. we can handle messages of any size.
198 This is useful when calculating checksum for files:
200 use Digest::MD5;
202 my $filename = shift || "/etc/passwd";
204 open (my $fh, '<', $filename) or die "Can't open '$filename': $!";
205 binmode($fh);
206 $md5 = Digest::MD5->new;
208 while (<$fh>) {
209 $md5->add($_);
210 }
211 close($fh);
212 print $md5->b64digest, " $filename\n";
213 Or we can use the addfile method for more efficient reading of the
215 file:
216 use Digest::MD5;
218 my $filename = shift || "/etc/passwd";
220 open (my $fh, '<', $filename) or die "Can't open '$filename': $!";
221 binmode ($fh);
222 print Digest::MD5->new->addfile($fh)->hexdigest, " $filename\n";
224 Since the MD5 algorithm is only defined for strings of bytes, it can
226 not be used on strings that contains chars with ordinal number above
227 255 (Unicode strings). The MD5 functions and methods will croak if you
228 try to feed them such input data:
229 use Digest::MD5 qw(md5_hex);
231 my $str = "abc\x{300}";
233 print md5_hex($str), "\n"; # croaks
234 # Wide character in subroutine entry
235 What you can do is calculate the MD5 checksum of the UTF-8
237 representation of such strings. This is achieved by filtering the
238 string through encode_utf8() function:
239 use Digest::MD5 qw(md5_hex);
241 use Encode qw(encode_utf8);
242 my $str = "abc\x{300}";
244 print md5_hex(encode_utf8($str)), "\n";
245 # 8c2d46911f3f5a326455f0ed7a8ed3b3
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248 Digest, Digest::MD2, Digest::SHA, Digest::HMAC
249 md5sum(1)
251 RFC 1321
253 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5
255 The paper "How to Break MD5 and Other Hash Functions" by Xiaoyun Wang
257 and Hongbo Yu.
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260 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
261 under the same terms as Perl itself.
262 Copyright 1998-2003 Gisle Aas.
264 Copyright 1995-1996 Neil Winton.
265 Copyright 1991-1992 RSA Data Security, Inc.
266 The MD5 algorithm is defined in RFC 1321. This implementation is
268 derived from the reference C code in RFC 1321 which is covered by the
269 following copyright statement:
270 ยท Copyright (C) 1991-2, RSA Data Security, Inc. Created 1991. All
272 rights reserved.
273 License to copy and use this software is granted provided that it
275 is identified as the "RSA Data Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest
276 Algorithm" in all material mentioning or referencing this software
277 or this function.
278 License is also granted to make and use derivative works provided
280 that such works are identified as "derived from the RSA Data
281 Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm" in all material
282 mentioning or referencing the derived work.
283 RSA Data Security, Inc. makes no representations concerning either
285 the merchantability of this software or the suitability of this
286 software for any particular purpose. It is provided "as is" without
287 express or implied warranty of any kind.
288 These notices must be retained in any copies of any part of this
290 documentation and/or software.
291 This copyright does not prohibit distribution of any version of Perl
293 containing this extension under the terms of the GNU or Artistic
294 licenses.
295
297 The original "MD5" interface was written by Neil Winton
298 ("N.Winton@axion.bt.co.uk").
299 The "Digest::MD5" module is written by Gisle Aas
301 <gisle@ActiveState.com>.
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