How to transform phrases and words into MD5 hash?
- by brilliant
Can anyone, please, explain to me how to transform a phrase like "I want to buy some milk" into MD5? I read Wikipedia article on MD5, but the explanation given there is beyond my comprehension:
"MD5 processes a variable-length
message into a fixed-length output of
128 bits. The input message is broken
up into chunks of 512-bit blocks
(sixteen 32-bit little endian
integers)"
"sixteen 32-bit little endian integers" is already hard for me. I checked the article on little endians and didn't understand a bit.
However, the examples of some phrases and their MD5 hashes are very nice:
MD5("The quick brown fox jumps over
the lazy dog") =
9e107d9d372bb6826bd81d3542a419d6
MD5("The quick brown fox jumps over
the lazy dog.") =
e4d909c290d0fb1ca068ffaddf22cbd0
Can anyone, please, explain to me how this MD5 algorithm works on some very simple example?
And also, perhaps you know some software or a code that would transform phrases into their MD5. If yes, please, let me know.
