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

- (NSString*)MD5:(NSData *) data
    {
        // Create byte array of unsigned chars
        unsigned char md5Buffer[CC_MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH];

        // Create 16 byte MD5 hash value, store in buffer
        CC_MD5([data bytes], (CC_LONG)data.length, md5Buffer);

        // Convert unsigned char buffer to NSString of hex values
        NSMutableString *output = [NSMutableString stringWithCapacity:CC_MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH * 2];
        for(int i = 0; i < CC_MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH; i++)
        [output appendFormat:@"%02x",md5Buffer[i]];

        return output;
    }

How to use

NSString *yourStrToBeConverted;
NSData* data = [yourStrToBeConverted dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSString *md5res=[self MD5:data];