md5

Documentation

Overview

Package md5 implements the MD5 hash algorithm as defined in RFC 1321.

MD5 is cryptographically broken and should not be used for secure applications.

Index

• Constants
• func New() hash.Hash
• func Sum(data []byte) [Size]byte

Constants

const BlockSize = 64

The blocksize of MD5 in bytes.

const Size = 16

The size of an MD5 checksum in bytes.

Functions

func New

func New() hash.Hash

New returns a new hash.Hash computing the MD5 checksum. The Hash also implements encoding.BinaryMarshaler and encoding.BinaryUnmarshaler to marshal and unmarshal the internal state of the hash.

func Sum

func Sum(data []byte) [Size]byte

Sum returns the MD5 checksum of the data.