MD5 Message Digest Unit How-to Guide

Applies to: ~>1.0

This guide consists of various topics to help you understand how to get the best out of the MD5 Message Digest unit.

If you want detailed documentation of each method please see the Programmers’ Guide.

Contents

• Get started - create your first MD5 hash
• Get a digest string - learn how get the string representation of an MD5 digest
• Get raw digest data - learn how to access a MD5 digest’s raw binary data
• Compare two digests
• Understand the Calculate and Process methods - learn the difference between these methods
• Get the MD5 hash of:
  • a string
  • a string list
  • one or more files
  • a stream
  • untyped data
  • ordinal types
  • floating point types
  • an array
  • a record
  • an object
• Change the read buffer size

Links

• Overview
• Programmers’ Guide