John Hancock: Sign your hashes using md5

Why

Traditional usage: You need to sign reqests to an api
Personal usage: At AcademicWorks we allow bulk imports of data from external services via csv files. Processing this data is expensive and often these imports include rows of data that we have seen before. A row can be tranformaed into a hash by mapping headers to cells. By saving the signature of these hashes we save ourselves a lot of unneeded computational cycles.

basic

hash = {"foo" => "bar", "test" => "toon"}
hash.sign
=> "2a9807b64b8068a8a2a665521ad9aeae"

signing with shared secret

hash = {"foo" => "bar", "test" => "toon"}
hash.sign("ipsec")
=> "d7321e9c8f961deb9e114dd476e420a0"

sign ignoring certain fields

hash = {"foo" => "bar", "test" => "toon"}
hash.sign("ipsec", ["test"])
=> "b2d1e2808552c9d421b2b6f617c71012"

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Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution
Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.
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