Java md5, the PHP way

Question

I have been working on this for hours, but I can\'t get it to work.

Basically I am developing a REST client in Java for a REST server in PHP. Both the client and the

Answer 1

You need to convert the result into the HEX representation. This is how it is done in Fast MD5 library:

    private static final char[] HEX_CHARS = { '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5',
            '6', '7', '8', '9', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', };

    /**
     * Turns array of bytes into string representing each byte as unsigned hex
     * number.
     * 
     * @param hash
     *            Array of bytes to convert to hex-string
     * @return Generated hex string
     */
    public static String asHex(byte hash[]) {
        char buf[] = new char[hash.length * 2];
        for (int i = 0, x = 0; i < hash.length; i++) {
            buf[x++] = HEX_CHARS[(hash[i] >>> 4) & 0xf];
            buf[x++] = HEX_CHARS[hash[i] & 0xf];
        }
        return new String(buf);
    }

So you will need to call System.out.println("String3: " + asHex(thedigest));