Maximum length for MD5 input/output

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Arun David picture Arun David · Aug 3, 2010 · Viewed 214.7k times · Source

What is the maximum length of the string that can have md5 hashed? Or: If it has no limit, and if so what will be the max length of the md5 output value?

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Daniel Vassallo picture Daniel Vassallo · Aug 3, 2010

MD5 processes an arbitrary-length message into a fixed-length output of 128 bits, typically represented as a sequence of 32 hexadecimal digits.

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