At some point in your programming career, you will probably need to use an MD5 hash. Most likely just to get the hash for a password.

One of the simplest ways is to use groovy. Here is the code. Don’t even need to put it in the download section. Just copy the code to a file and run it.

import java.security.MessageDigest

srcWord = "password"

if (args.length > 0) {
	srcWord = args[0]
}

println "src: " + srcWord
MessageDigest md5Digest;
byte[] digest;

println "\n****************************************\n"

/* MD5 Code */
md5Digest = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
md5Digest.reset();
md5Digest.update(srcWord.getBytes());
digest = md5Digest.digest();

// println "new BigInteger(1,digest).toString(): " + new BigInteger(1,digest).toString()
println "MD5: " + new BigInteger(1,digest).toString(16)
println "MD5/B64: " + digest.encodeBase64().toString()

println "\n****************************************\n"

/* Now do the same thing for SHA-1 */
md5Digest = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-1");
md5Digest.reset();
md5Digest.update(srcWord.getBytes());
digest = md5Digest.digest();
// println "src: " + srcWord
// println "new BigInteger(1,digest).toString(): " + new BigInteger(1,digest).toString()
println "SHA-1: " + new BigInteger(1,digest).toString(16)
println "SHA-1/B64: " + digest.encodeBase64().toString()

println "\n****************************************\n"

/* Now do the same thing for SHA-256 */
md5Digest = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-256");
md5Digest.reset();
md5Digest.update(srcWord.getBytes());
digest = md5Digest.digest();
// println "src: " + srcWord
// println "new BigInteger(1,digest).toString(): " + new BigInteger(1,digest).toString()
println "SHA-256: " + new BigInteger(1,digest).toString(16)
println "SHA-256/B64: " + digest.encodeBase64().toString()

println "\n****************************************\n"

/* Now do the same thing for SHA-512 */
md5Digest = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-512");
md5Digest.reset();
md5Digest.update(srcWord.getBytes());
digest = md5Digest.digest();
// println "src: " + srcWord
// println "new BigInteger(1,digest).toString(): " + new BigInteger(1,digest).toString()
println "SHA-512: " + new BigInteger(1,digest).toString(16)
println "SHA-412/B64: " + digest.encodeBase64().toString()

println "\n****************************************\n"