On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, hongbin tang wrote: > Hi, All; > Why the result of messages digest using md5 differs > from using openssl md5? > > for example. > # md5 -q -s "hello" > 5d41402abc4b2a76b9719d911017c592 > but when I used openssl. > > #echo "hello" | openssl md5 > f447b20a7fcbf53a5d5be013ea0b15af > why are they different? I used openssl 0.9.6d on > FreeBsd4.2 UNIX.
echo puts a newline character at the end of the string. Try this: echo -n "hello" | openssl md5 ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]