Quickly generate an MD5 hash for a text string using OpenSSL

• 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. Show Sample Output

  This is sample output - yours may be different.

  8df639b301a1e10c36cc2f03bbdf8863

  
  

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  echo -n 'text to be encrypted' | openssl md5
  Zenexer · 2009-03-18 00:11:46 12
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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)

  This is sample output - yours may be different.

  
  

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  md5sum<<<'text to be encrypted'
  waldvogel · 2012-02-14 19:57:52 3
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  echo -n 'the_password' | md5sum -
  jfreak53 · 2012-06-04 13:18:33 3
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How does "27e70f93f6059e5e08ed04a0a05c17ca" generate an MD5 hash from a text string using OpenSSL?

atoponce · 713 weeks and 1 day ago

3f0c2cd60140dbf904add5ec28de3053

SuperFly · 713 weeks and 1 day ago

In my box it generates an error...

MarxBro · 583 weeks ago

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