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=Computing MD5=
=Computing MD5=


=OpenSSL=
==OpenSSL==


An MD5 hash can be [[Openssl_Operations#Generate_an_MD5_Hash|generated with OpenSSL]].
An MD5 hash can be [[Openssl_Operations#Generate_an_MD5_Hash|generated with OpenSSL]].

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Overview

MD5 is a cryptographically secure message digest algorithm. It takes an arbitrary-sized input - a byte array - and generates a fixed size output, called a digest or hash. MD5 produces a 16 byte digest.

Computing MD5

OpenSSL

An MD5 hash can be generated with OpenSSL.