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From: "Joe Cooper" <joe@swelltech.com>
> > Secondly, find some way of feeding that into perls MD5 module.
Note -
> > and this is the most important thing - that feeding '1' in when the
> > binary value is '\1' is wrong. I'm no perl programmer, so
pack/unpack
> > don't mean much to me, but if they perform _any_ conversion you will
get
> > the wrong results.
>
> I'm afraid I'm not getting this part? Isn't conversion what /is/
needed
> here, if I'm starting with a base ten 1 and need a binary 1 to be fed
> into MD5?
MD5 is a mathematical algorithm - it operates on binary all the time.
When it's fed "mary had a little lamb" MD5 is passed unsigned byte
data[22]; So no conversion is needed - it's being passed the binary
length and value of the method variable.
Rob
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