Is there any method to generate MD5 hash of a string in Java?
The MessageDigest class can provide you with an instance of the MD5 digest.
When working with strings and the crypto classes be sure to always specify the encoding you want the byte representation in. If you just use string.getBytes() it will use the platform default. (Not all platforms use the same defaults)
import java.security.*;
..
byte[] bytesOfMessage = yourString.getBytes("UTF-8");
MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
byte[] theMD5digest = md.digest(bytesOfMessage);
If you have a lot of data take a look at the .update(xxx) methods which can be called repeatedly. Then call .digest() to obtain the resulting hash.
You need java.security.MessageDigest.
Call MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5") to get a MD5 instance of MessageDigest you can use.
The compute the hash by doing one of:
Feed the entire input as a byte[] and calculate the hash in one operation with md.digest(bytes).
Feed the MessageDigest one byte[] chunk at a time by calling md.update(bytes). When you're done adding input bytes, calculate the hash with
md.digest().
The byte[] returned by md.digest() is the MD5 hash.
If you actually want the answer back as a string as opposed to a byte array, you could always do something like this:
String plaintext = "your text here";
MessageDigest m = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
m.reset();
m.update(plaintext.getBytes());
byte[] digest = m.digest();
BigInteger bigInt = new BigInteger(1,digest);
String hashtext = bigInt.toString(16);
// Now we need to zero pad it if you actually want the full 32 chars.
while(hashtext.length() < 32 ){
hashtext = "0"+hashtext;
}
You might also want to look at the DigestUtils class of the apache commons codec project, which provides very convenient methods to create MD5 or SHA digests.
Found this:
public String MD5(String md5) {
try {
java.security.MessageDigest md = java.security.MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
byte[] array = md.digest(md5.getBytes());
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
for (int i = 0; i < array.length; ++i) {
sb.append(Integer.toHexString((array[i] & 0xFF) | 0x100).substring(1,3));
}
return sb.toString();
} catch (java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
}
return null;
}
on the site below, I take no credit for it, but its a solution that works!
For me lots of other code didnt work properly, I ended up missing 0s in the hash.
This one seems to be the same as PHP has.
source: http://m2tec.be/blog/2010/02/03/java-md5-hex-0093
Here is how I use it:
final MessageDigest messageDigest = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
messageDigest.reset();
messageDigest.update(string.getBytes(Charset.forName("UTF8")));
final byte[] resultByte = messageDigest.digest();
final String result = new String(Hex.encodeHex(resultByte));
where Hex is: org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Hex from the Apache Commons project.
I've found this to be the most clear and concise way to do it:
MessageDigest md5 = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
md5.update(StandardCharsets.UTF_8.encode(string));
return String.format("%032x", new BigInteger(1, md5.digest()));
I just downloaded commons-codec.jar and got perfect php like md5. Here is manual.
Just import it to your project and use
String Url = "your_url";
System.out.println( DigestUtils.md5Hex( Url ) );
and there you have it.
No need to make it too complicated.
DigestUtils works fine and makes you comfortable while working with md5 hashes.
DigestUtils.md5Hex(_hash);
or
DigestUtils.md5(_hash);
Either you can use any other encryption methods such as sha or md.
Found this solution which is much cleaner in terms of getting a String representation back from an MD5 hash.
import java.security.*;
import java.math.*;
public class MD5 {
public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception{
String s="This is a test";
MessageDigest m=MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
m.update(s.getBytes(),0,s.length());
System.out.println("MD5: "+new BigInteger(1,m.digest()).toString(16));
}
}
The code was extracted from here.
Another implementation:
import javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter;
String hash = DatatypeConverter.printHexBinary(
MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5").digest("SOMESTRING".getBytes("UTF-8")));
Another option is to use the Guava Hashing methods:
Hasher hasher = Hashing.md5().newHasher();
hasher.putString("my string");
byte[] md5 = hasher.hash().asBytes();
Handy if you are already using Guava (which if you're not, you probably should be).
I have a Class (Hash) to convert plain text in hash in formats: md5 or sha1, simillar that php functions (md5, sha1):
public class Hash {
/**
*
* #param txt, text in plain format
* #param hashType MD5 OR SHA1
* #return hash in hashType
*/
public static String getHash(String txt, String hashType) {
try {
java.security.MessageDigest md = java.security.MessageDigest.getInstance(hashType);
byte[] array = md.digest(txt.getBytes());
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
for (int i = 0; i < array.length; ++i) {
sb.append(Integer.toHexString((array[i] & 0xFF) | 0x100).substring(1,3));
}
return sb.toString();
} catch (java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
//error action
}
return null;
}
public static String md5(String txt) {
return Hash.getHash(txt, "MD5");
}
public static String sha1(String txt) {
return Hash.getHash(txt, "SHA1");
}
}
Testing with JUnit and PHP
PHP Script:
<?php
echo 'MD5 :' . md5('Hello World') . "\n";
echo 'SHA1:' . sha1('Hello World') . "\n";
Output PHP script:
MD5 :b10a8db164e0754105b7a99be72e3fe5
SHA1:0a4d55a8d778e5022fab701977c5d840bbc486d0
Using example and Testing with JUnit:
public class HashTest {
#Test
public void test() {
String txt = "Hello World";
assertEquals("b10a8db164e0754105b7a99be72e3fe5", Hash.md5(txt));
assertEquals("0a4d55a8d778e5022fab701977c5d840bbc486d0", Hash.sha1(txt));
}
}
Code in GitHub
https://github.com/fitorec/java-hashes
My not very revealing answer:
private String md5(String s) {
try {
MessageDigest m = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
m.update(s.getBytes(), 0, s.length());
BigInteger i = new BigInteger(1,m.digest());
return String.format("%1$032x", i);
} catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return null;
}
There is a DigestUtils class in Spring also:
http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/javadoc-api/org/springframework/util/DigestUtils.html
This class contains the method md5DigestAsHex() that does the job.
You can try following. See details and download codes here: http://jkssweetlife.com/java-hashgenerator-md5-sha-1/
import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
public class MD5Example {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
final String inputString = "Hello MD5";
System.out.println("MD5 hex for '" + inputString + "' :");
System.out.println(getMD5Hex(inputString));
}
public static String getMD5Hex(final String inputString) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException {
MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
md.update(inputString.getBytes());
byte[] digest = md.digest();
return convertByteToHex(digest);
}
private static String convertByteToHex(byte[] byteData) {
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for (int i = 0; i < byteData.length; i++) {
sb.append(Integer.toString((byteData[i] & 0xff) + 0x100, 16).substring(1));
}
return sb.toString();
}
}
Bombe's answer is correct, however note that unless you absolutely must use MD5 (e.g. forced on you for interoperability), a better choice is SHA1 as MD5 has weaknesses for long term use.
I should add that SHA1 also has theoretical vulnerabilities, but not as severe. The current state of the art in hashing is that there are a number of candidate replacement hash functions but none have yet emerged as the standard best practice to replace SHA1. So, depending on your needs you would be well advised to make your hash algorithm configurable so it can be replaced in future.
Another implementation: Fast MD5 Implementation in Java
String hash = MD5.asHex(MD5.getHash(new File(filename)));
I do not know if this is relevant for anyone reading this, but I just had the problem that I wanted to
download a file from a given URL and
compare its MD5 to a known value.
I wanted to do it with JRE classes only (no Apache Commons or similar). A quick web search did not show me sample code snippets doing both at the same time, only each task separately. Because this requires to read the same file twice, I figured it might be worth the while to write some code which unifies both tasks, calculating the checksum on the fly while downloading the file. This is my result (sorry if it is not perfect Java, but I guess you get the idea anyway):
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.math.BigInteger;
import java.net.URL;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.nio.channels.Channels;
import java.nio.channels.ReadableByteChannel;
import java.nio.channels.WritableByteChannel;
import java.security.DigestOutputStream; // new
import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
void downloadFile(String fromURL, String toFile, BigInteger md5)
throws IOException, NoSuchAlgorithmException
{
ReadableByteChannel in = Channels.newChannel(new URL(fromURL).openStream());
MessageDigest md5Digest = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
WritableByteChannel out = Channels.newChannel(
//new FileOutputStream(toFile)); // old
new DigestOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(toFile), md5Digest)); // new
ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(1024 * 1024); // 1 MB
while (in.read(buffer) != -1) {
buffer.flip();
//md5Digest.update(buffer.asReadOnlyBuffer()); // old
out.write(buffer);
buffer.clear();
}
BigInteger md5Actual = new BigInteger(1, md5Digest.digest());
if (! md5Actual.equals(md5))
throw new RuntimeException(
"MD5 mismatch for file " + toFile +
": expected " + md5.toString(16) +
", got " + md5Actual.toString(16)
);
}
import java.security.*;
import javax.xml.bind.*;
byte[] bytesOfMessage = yourString.getBytes("UTF-8");
MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
byte[] bytesOfDigest = md.digest(bytesOfMessage);
String digest = DatatypeConverter.printHexBinary(bytesOfDigest).toLowerCase();
Unlike PHP where you can do an MD5 hashing of your text by just calling md5 function ie md5($text), in Java it was made little bit complicated. I usually implemented it by calling a function which returns the md5 hash text.
Here is how I implemented it, First create a function named md5hashing inside your main class as given below.
public static String md5hashing(String text)
{ String hashtext = null;
try
{
String plaintext = text;
MessageDigest m = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
m.reset();
m.update(plaintext.getBytes());
byte[] digest = m.digest();
BigInteger bigInt = new BigInteger(1,digest);
hashtext = bigInt.toString(16);
// Now we need to zero pad it if you actually want the full 32 chars.
while(hashtext.length() < 32 ){
hashtext = "0"+hashtext;
}
} catch (Exception e1)
{
// TODO: handle exception
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,e1.getClass().getName() + ": " + e1.getMessage());
}
return hashtext;
}
Now call the function whenever you needed as given below.
String text = textFieldName.getText();
String pass = md5hashing(text);
Here you can see that hashtext is appended with a zero to make it match with md5 hashing in PHP.
For what it's worth, I stumbled upon this because I want to synthesize GUIDs from a natural key for a program that will install COM components; I want to syhthesize so as not to manage GUID lifecycle. I'll use MD5 and then use the UUID class to get a string out of it. (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2190890/how-can-i-generate-guid-for-a-string-values/12867439 raises this issue).
In any case, java.util.UUID can get you a nice String from the MD5 bytes.
return UUID.nameUUIDFromBytes(md5Bytes).toString();
MD5 is perfectly fine if you don't need the best security, and if you're doing something like checking file integrity then security is not a consideration. In such as case you might want to consider something simpler and faster, such as Adler32, which is also supported by the Java libraries.
this one gives the exact md5 as you get from mysql's md5 function or php's md5 functions etc. This is the one I use (you can change according to your needs)
public static String md5( String input ) {
try {
java.security.MessageDigest md = java.security.MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
byte[] array = md.digest(input.getBytes( "UTF-8" ));
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
for (int i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
sb.append( String.format( "%02x", array[i]));
}
return sb.toString();
} catch ( NoSuchAlgorithmException | UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
return null;
}
}
import java.security.MessageDigest
val digest = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5")
//Quick MD5 of text
val text = "MD5 this text!"
val md5hash1 = digest.digest(text.getBytes).map("%02x".format(_)).mkString
//MD5 of text with updates
digest.update("MD5 ".getBytes())
digest.update("this ".getBytes())
digest.update("text!".getBytes())
val md5hash2 = digest.digest().map(0xFF & _).map("%02x".format(_)).mkString
//Output
println(md5hash1 + " should be the same as " + md5hash2)
You can generate MD5 hash for a given text by making use of the methods in the MessageDigest class in the java.security package. Below is the complete code snippet,
import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter;
public class MD5HashGenerator
{
public static void main(String args[]) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException
{
String stringToHash = "MyJavaCode";
MessageDigest messageDigest = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
messageDigest.update(stringToHash.getBytes());
byte[] digiest = messageDigest.digest();
String hashedOutput = DatatypeConverter.printHexBinary(digiest);
System.out.println(hashedOutput);
}
}
The output from the MD5 function is a 128 bit hash represented by 32 hexadecimal numbers.
In case, if you are using a database like MySQL, you can do this in a more simpler way as well. The query Select MD5(“text here”) will return the MD5 hash of the text in the bracket.
try this:
public static String getHashMD5(String string) {
try {
MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
BigInteger bi = new BigInteger(1, md.digest(string.getBytes()));
return bi.toString(16);
} catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(MD5Utils.class
.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
return "";
}
}
This is what I came here for- a handy scala function that returns string of MD5 hash:
def md5(text: String) : String = java.security.MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5").digest(text.getBytes()).map(0xFF & _).map { "%02x".format(_) }.foldLeft(""){_ + _}
import java.math.BigInteger;
import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
/**
* MD5 encryption
*
* #author Hongten
*
*/
public class MD5 {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(MD5.getMD5("123456"));
}
/**
* Use md5 encoded code value
*
* #param sInput
* clearly
* # return md5 encrypted password
*/
public static String getMD5(String sInput) {
String algorithm = "";
if (sInput == null) {
return "null";
}
try {
algorithm = System.getProperty("MD5.algorithm", "MD5");
} catch (SecurityException se) {
}
MessageDigest md = null;
try {
md = MessageDigest.getInstance(algorithm);
} catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
byte buffer[] = sInput.getBytes();
for (int count = 0; count < sInput.length(); count++) {
md.update(buffer, 0, count);
}
byte bDigest[] = md.digest();
BigInteger bi = new BigInteger(bDigest);
return (bi.toString(16));
}
}
There is an article on Codingkit about that. Check out: http://codingkit.com/a/JAVA/2013/1020/2216.html
You could try using Caesar.
First option:
byte[] hash =
new Hash(
new ImmutableMessageDigest(
MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5")
),
new PlainText("String to hash...")
).asArray();
Second option:
byte[] hash =
new ImmutableMessageDigest(
MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5")
).update(
new PlainText("String to hash...")
).digest();
in PHP I have the following function:
base64_encode(hash_hmac('sha256', $data, $secret, false));
I'm trying to create a function in Java that will give the same result for the same "data" and "secret" parameters.
I tried to use this function:
public static String base64sha256(String data, String secret) {
Mac sha256_HMAC = Mac.getInstance("HmacSHA256");
SecretKeySpec secret_key = new SecretKeySpec(secret.getBytes(), "HmacSHA256");
sha256_HMAC.init(secret_key);
byte[] res = sha256_HMAC.doFinal(data.getBytes());
return Base64.encodeToString(res, Base64.NO_WRAP);
}
But I get different results for the same input
Update: This function works. Enjoy.
public static String base64sha256(String data, String secret) {
String hash = null;
try {
Mac sha256_HMAC = Mac.getInstance("HmacSHA256");
SecretKeySpec secret_key = new SecretKeySpec(secret.getBytes("UTF-8"), "HmacSHA256");
sha256_HMAC.init(secret_key);
byte[] res = sha256_HMAC.doFinal(data.getBytes("UTF-8"));
hash = getHex(res);
hash = Base64.encodeToString(hash.getBytes("UTF-8"), Base64.NO_WRAP);
} catch (Exception e){}
return hash;
}
static final String HEXES = "0123456789abcdef";
public static String getHex( byte [] raw ) {
if ( raw == null ) {
return null;
}
final StringBuilder hex = new StringBuilder( 2 * raw.length );
for ( final byte b : raw ) {
hex.append(HEXES.charAt((b & 0xF0) >> 4))
.append(HEXES.charAt((b & 0x0F)));
}
return hex.toString();
}
The output of the php function are lowercase hex digits when the fourth parameter is false. Your second java version however produces uppercase hex digits. Either correct the case difference or you could change the fourth parameter of hash_hmac to true and it will probably match with your first Java version.
If trying to match output of drupal_hmac_base64 with Java 8, you can use the following code:
final String ALGORITHM = "HmacSHA256";
Mac mac = Mac.getInstance(ALGORITHM);
SecretKeySpec secret = new SecretKeySpec(authorizationKey.getBytes(), ALGORITHM);
mac.init(secret);
byte[] digest = mac.doFinal(body.getBytes());
hash = Base64.getUrlEncoder().withoutPadding().encodeToString(digest);
return signature.equals(hash);
Note that drupal returns a hash using raw binary data (3rd parameter TRUE). Also, base64 encoding in PHP matches the URL and Filename safe base64 encoder in Java https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Base64.html#url.
For someone who might be facing a slight change (not working) in Java result compared to PHP, my issue was in returning the hash from HmacSHA256 as String, while you should return it and pass to Hex as byte[].
Here are the working methods to simulate PHP's hash_hmac()
public String hashValue(String message) {
byte[] hash = toHmacSHA256(message);
String hashHexed = toHex(hash);
return hashHexed;
}
private String toHex(byte[] value) {
String hexed = String.format("%040x", new BigInteger(1, value));
return hexed;
}
private byte[] toHmacSHA256(String value) {
byte[] hash = null;
try {
SecretKey secretKey = new SecretKeySpec(PRIVATE_KEY.getBytes("UTF-8"), "HmacSHA256");
Mac mac = Mac.getInstance("HmacSHA256");
mac.init(secretKey);
hash = mac.doFinal(value.getBytes("UTF-8"));
} catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (InvalidKeyException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return hash;
}
I have a SQL table with usernames and passwords. The passwords are encoded using MessageDigest's digest() method. If I encode a password - let's say "abcdef12" - with MessageDigest's digest() method and then convert it to hexadecimal values, the String is different than if I do the same using PHP's SHA1-method. I'd expect these values to be exactly the same though.
Code that is used to encode the passwords:
MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-1");
byte[] passbyte;
passbyte = "abcdef12".getBytes("UTF-8");
passbyte = md.digest(passbyte);
The conversion of the String to hexadecimal is done using this method:
public static String convertStringToHex(String str) {
char[] chars = str.toCharArray();
StringBuffer hex = new StringBuffer();
for (int i = 0; i < chars.length; i++) {
hex.append(Integer.toHexString((int) chars[i]));
}
return hex.toString();
}
Password: abcdef12
Here's the password as returned by a lot of SHA1-hash online generators and PHP SHA1()-function: d253e3bd69ce1e7ce6074345fd5faa1a3c2e89ef
Here's the password as encoded by MessageDigest: d253e3bd69ce1e7ce674345fd5faa1a3c2e2030ef
Am I forgetting something?
Igor.
Edit: I've found someone with a similar problem: C# SHA-1 vs. PHP SHA-1...Different Results? . The solution was to change encodings.. but I can't change encodings on the server-side since the passwords in that SQL-table are not created by my application.
I use client-side SHA1-encoding using a JavaScript SHA1-class (more precisely: a Google Web Toolkit-class). It works and encodes the string as expected, but apparently using ASCII characters?..
I have the same digest as PHP with my Java SHA-1 hashing function:
public static String computeSha1OfString(final String message)
throws UnsupportedOperationException, NullPointerException {
try {
return computeSha1OfByteArray(message.getBytes(("UTF-8")));
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException ex) {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException(ex);
}
}
private static String computeSha1OfByteArray(final byte[] message)
throws UnsupportedOperationException {
try {
MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-1");
md.update(message);
byte[] res = md.digest();
return toHexString(res);
} catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException ex) {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException(ex);
}
}
I've added to my unit tests:
String sha1Hash = StringHelper.computeSha1OfString("abcdef12");
assertEquals("d253e3bd69ce1e7ce6074345fd5faa1a3c2e89ef", sha1Hash);
Full source code for the class is on github.
Try this - it is working for me:
MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance(algorithm);
md.update(original.getBytes());
byte[] digest = md.digest();
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
for (byte b : digest) {
sb.append(Integer.toString((b & 0xff) + 0x100, 16).substring(1));
}
return sb.toString();
Regards,
Konki
It has nothing to do with the encodings. The output would be entirely different.
For starters, your function convertStringToHex() doesn't output leading zeros, that is, 07 becomes just 7.
The rest (changing 89 to 2030) is also likely to have something to do with that function. Try looking at the value of passbyte after passbyte = md.digest(passbyte);.
Or try this:
MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-1");
md.update(clearPassword.getBytes("UTF-8"));
return new BigInteger(1 ,md.digest()).toString(16));
Cheers Roy