MD5(3pm)

MD53pm

Perl interface to the md5 message-digest algorithm

Usage

 use MD5;
 $context = new MD5;
 $context->reset();
 $context->add(LIST);
 $context->addfile(HANDLE);
 $digest = $context->digest();
 $string = $context->hexdigest();
 $digest = MD5->hash(SCALAR);
 $string = MD5->hexhash(SCALAR);

Overview

The "MD5" module is depreciated. Use "Digest::MD5" instead.

The current "MD5" module is just a wrapper around the "Digest::MD5" module. It is provided so that legacy code that rely on the old interface still work and get the speed benefit of the new module.

In addition to the methods provided for "Digest::MD5" objects, this module provide the class methods MD5->hash() and MD5->hexhash() that do the same as the md5() and md5_hex() functions provided by "Digest::MD5".

Releases

6 releases since Debian 2.1 (Slink); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 2.1
  2. 2.2
  3. 3.0
  4. 3.1–5.0

From libmd5-perl 2.03-1 in Debian 5.0 (Lenny). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.