Class: Digest::MD5

Inherits:

Base

• Object
• Class
• Base
• Digest::MD5

Defined in:

md5/md5init.c,
md5/md5init.c

Overview

A class for calculating message digests using the MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm by RSA Data Security, Inc., described in RFC1321.

MD5 calculates a digest of 128 bits (16 bytes).

Examples

require 'digest'

# Compute a complete digest
Digest::MD5.hexdigest 'abc'      #=> "90015098..."

# Compute digest by chunks
md5 = Digest::MD5.new               # =>#<Digest::MD5>
md5.update "ab"
md5 << "c"                           # alias for #update
md5.hexdigest                        # => "90015098..."

# Use the same object to compute another digest
md5.reset
md5 << "message"
md5.hexdigest                        # => "78e73102..."

Method Summary

Methods inherited from Base

#<<, #block_length, #digest_length, #initialize_copy, #reset, #update

Methods inherited from Class

base64digest, bubblebabble, digest, file, hexdigest, #initialize

Methods included from Instance

#<<, #==, #base64digest, #base64digest!, #block_length, #bubblebabble, #digest, #digest!, #digest_length, #file, #hexdigest, #hexdigest!, #inspect, #length, #new, #reset, #size, #to_s, #update

Constructor Details

This class inherits a constructor from Digest::Class