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Why is Java's MD5 different from MySQL MD5?

 
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Here's the way I implement MD5 in Java:



However, when I compare hashes of the same string done by this function, and the one done by MySQL's MD5(''), they're very different.

Anybody knows why? My first guess is it has something to do with character encodings. On my MySQL I'm using utf-8 everywhere.
 
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Well MD5 is a standard so presuming MySQL's implementation is correct the only way the two are not going to match is if the values you pass are different. Your guess about character encodings is probably correct - assuming you have checked carefully that it is nothing so simple as a typo? You are probably aware that String.getBytes() returns an encoding of a String in the platform's default character set. You could probably check that this is consistent with the character set used in your MySQL database.
 
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Well I solved the problem by downloading somebody's custom MD5 implementation in Java, which works perfect with MySQL.

Screw you, MessageDigest.
 
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MessageDigest.digest() returns a byte[], and new String(byte[]) converts those bytes directly to characters using the platform's default. However, you're probably expecting a hex-string like "a8ce923f27d1...", and I'd bet the library you found does that conversion for you.
 
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It Sure does:

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