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Quickly generate an MD5 hash for a text string using OpenSSL

Terminal - Quickly generate an MD5 hash for a text string using OpenSSL
echo -n 'text to be encrypted' | openssl md5
2009-03-18 00:11:46
User: Zenexer
Functions: echo
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Quickly generate an MD5 hash for a text string using OpenSSL

Thanks to OpenSSL, you can quickly and easily generate MD5 hashes for your passwords.

Alternative (thanks to linuxrawkstar and atoponce):

echo -n 'text to be encrypted' | md5sum -

Note that the above method does not utlise OpenSSL.

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Alternatives

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Terminal - Alternatives
md5sum<<<'text to be encrypted'
2012-02-14 19:57:52
User: waldvogel
Functions: md5sum
Tags: Security Encryption
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Quickly generate an MD5 hash for a text string using OpenSSL

Here Strings / A variant of here documents, the format is:

(from bash manpage)

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echo -n 'the_password' | md5sum -
2012-06-04 13:18:33
User: jfreak53
Functions: echo md5sum
Tags: Security Encryption
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27e70f93f6059e5e08ed04a0a05c17ca
2010-08-19 16:41:03
User: shoshwet
Tags: Security Encryption
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Quickly generate an MD5 hash for a text string using OpenSSL
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echo -n 'text to be encrypted' | md5sum

8df639b301a1e10c36cc2f03bbdf8863 -

md5sum is all you need for md5 hashes

Comment by linuxrawkstar 218 weeks ago

@linuxrawkstar you should include the '-' at the end for POSIX compliance, even though it works without it.

echo -n 'text to be encrypted' | md5sum -
Comment by atoponce 218 weeks ago

True, though I prefer to use OpenSSL, as I know it will/can be present on just about all systems. Even on Windows, I always install OpenSSL. I love consistency. Granted, I could just rename some random Windows utility to md5sum.exe, but that's not fun. I'll add it as an alternative, though.

Comment by Zenexer 217 weeks and 6 days ago

On my Ubuntu system, md5sum

adds a carriage return at the end of the string, the same as using echo without -n :

echo 'text to be encrypted' | openssl md5

So, the original solution with openssl would appear to be the only reliable one.

Comment by cbrace 53 weeks ago

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