Blog Archive for November 15, 2011

MD5 Hash In Java

November 15, 2011

I needed to produce an MD5 hash in Java, in order to integrate with a credit card processing system.

This can be done with the following code:

byte[] lBytesOfMessage = lStringToEncode.toString().getBytes("UTF-8");
MessageDigest lMessageDigest = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
byte[] …