MD5 hashing in Android

Question

I have a simple android client which needs to \'talk\' to a simple C# HTTP listener. I want to provide a basic level of authentication by passing username/password in POST r

Answer 1

The androidsnippets.com code does not work reliably because 0's seem to be cut out of the resulting hash.

A better implementation is here.

public static String MD5_Hash(String s) {
    MessageDigest m = null;

    try {
            m = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
    } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
    }

    m.update(s.getBytes(),0,s.length());
    String hash = new BigInteger(1, m.digest()).toString(16);
    return hash;
}