How do I create an MD5 Hash of a string in Cocoa?

Question

I know SHA-1 is preferred, but this project requires I use MD5.

#include 

- (NSString*) MD5Hasher: (NSString*) query {
    NSData* hash         


        

Answer 1

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+ (NSString*)md5HexDigest:(NSString*)input {
    const char* str = [input UTF8String];
    unsigned char result[CC_MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH];
    CC_MD5(str, strlen(str), result);

    NSMutableString *ret = [NSMutableString stringWithCapacity:CC_MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH*2];
    for(int i = 0; i

Or instance method

- (NSString *)md5 {
    const char* str = [self UTF8String];
    unsigned char result[CC_MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH];
    CC_MD5(str, (CC_LONG)strlen(str), result);

    NSMutableString *ret = [NSMutableString stringWithCapacity:CC_MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH*2];
    for(int i = 0; i