hi
i’m the maintainer of a ruby yahoo chat program, and i’m trying to
implement the latest protocol changes by yahoo.
now it’s an MD5 hash for passwords etc, but i can’t seem to find a md5
module for ruby. i’ve searched on the net for ruby-md5 and also on the
RAA but it’s not listed anywhere.
has the package been made obsolete? superceded? is there a way i can get
MD5 hash’s?
regards
charles
Hi,
In message “md5 algorithms” on 03/01/04, charles blackburn Angel-Bunny@angelswithgoldenhearts.org writes:
has the package been made obsolete? superceded? is there a way i can get
MD5 hash’s?
No, now it’s bundled to the interpreter.
require ‘digest/md5’
hd = Digest::MD5.hexdigest(str)
matz.
now it’s an MD5 hash for passwords etc, but i can’t seem to find a md5
module for ruby. i’ve searched on the net for ruby-md5 and also on the
RAA but it’s not listed anywhere.
MD5 implementation is part of standard library…
(1/wejn/wxx) ~$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require ‘digest/md5’
true
irb(main):002:0> Digest::MD5.hexdigest(“Some string”)
“80f855e731cc0c9aa336ca4d25f990be”
(1/wejn/wxx) ~$ echo -n ‘Some string’ | md5sum
80f855e731cc0c9aa336ca4d25f990be -
Hth,
W.
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bloody 'ell that was quick 
thnx
On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 18:52, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
Hi,
In message “md5 algorithms” > on 03/01/04, charles blackburn Angel-Bunny@angelswithgoldenhearts.org writes:
has the package been made obsolete? superceded? is there a way i can get
MD5 hash’s?No, now it’s bundled to the interpreter.
require ‘digest/md5’
hd = Digest::MD5.hexdigest(str)matz.
I meant to ask. is there a way to specify the salt ??
charles
On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 18:52, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
Hi,
In message “md5 algorithms” > on 03/01/04, charles blackburn Angel-Bunny@angelswithgoldenhearts.org writes:
has the package been made obsolete? superceded? is there a way i can get
MD5 hash’s?No, now it’s bundled to the interpreter.
require ‘digest/md5’
hd = Digest::MD5.hexdigest(str)matz.
Hi,
In message “Re: md5 algorithms” on 03/01/04, Charles Blackburn charlesb@summerfield-technology.co.uk writes:
I meant to ask. is there a way to specify the salt ??
What do you mean by “salt”. As far as I know, there’s no salt in MD5
algorithm.
matz.
I suppose you’re rferring to the ~md5 format of BSD
(imported in other system) passwd files.
That’s not the real MD5, but something alike.
Probably they’re just adding a salt string to the password,
maybe simply concatenating them, dunno .
Maybe we could have such a thing in some external module, maybe
Ruby::Auth ,
PS
I seem to remember that this is called MD5-crypt instead of MD5, but
maybe I just have to sleep a little
On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 03:56:20 +0900, Charles Blackburn charlesb@summerfield-technology.co.uk wrote:
I meant to ask. is there a way to specify the salt ??
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 01:15:18PM +0900, gabriele renzi wrote:
I meant to ask. is there a way to specify the salt ??
I suppose you’re rferring to the ~md5 format of BSD
(imported in other system) passwd files.
That’s not the real MD5, but something alike.
Probably they’re just adding a salt string to the password,
maybe simply concatenating them, dunno .
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thanks , interesting to see I was not so far from the truth 
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 02:52:45 +0900, Dalibor Sramek dali@insula.cz wrote:
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 01:15:18PM +0900, gabriele renzi wrote:
I meant to ask. is there a way to specify the salt ??
I suppose you’re rferring to the ~md5 format of BSD
(imported in other system) passwd files.
That’s not the real MD5, but something alike.
Probably they’re just adding a salt string to the password,
maybe simply concatenating them, dunno .