Characters of an md5 string.

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August 27th, 2002, 09:59 AM

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Characters of an md5 string.

In the end result of an md5 encryped string, will the characters only be alphanumeric?

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Yes. I believe they are hex characters, meaning they'll be any of these:

0123456789ABCDEF

August 27th, 2002, 10:30 AM

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Very cool...

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im actually using it on one of my sites.....

the word 'test' in md5 is

098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6

September 27th, 2002, 02:47 AM

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yep. md5sum gives a 32 byte hex result.

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