How to calculate the MD5 in Objective-C?
md5 is available on the iPhone and can be added as an addition for ie NSString
and NSData
like below.
MyAdditions.h
@interface NSString (MyAdditions)
- (NSString *)md5;
@end
@interface NSData (MyAdditions)
- (NSString*)md5;
@end
MyAdditions.m
#import "MyAdditions.h"
#import <CommonCrypto/CommonDigest.h> // Need to import for CC_MD5 access
@implementation NSString (MyAdditions)
- (NSString *)md5
{
const char *cStr = [self UTF8String];
unsigned char result[CC_MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH];
CC_MD5( cStr, (int)strlen(cStr), result ); // This is the md5 call
return [NSString stringWithFormat:
@"%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x",
result[0], result[1], result[2], result[3],
result[4], result[5], result[6], result[7],
result[8], result[9], result[10], result[11],
result[12], result[13], result[14], result[15]
];
}
@end
@implementation NSData (MyAdditions)
- (NSString*)md5
{
unsigned char result[CC_MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH];
CC_MD5( self.bytes, (int)self.length, result ); // This is the md5 call
return [NSString stringWithFormat:
@"%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x",
result[0], result[1], result[2], result[3],
result[4], result[5], result[6], result[7],
result[8], result[9], result[10], result[11],
result[12], result[13], result[14], result[15]
];
}
@end
Added NSData md5 because I needed it myself and thought this is a good place to save this little snippet...
These methods are verified using the NIST MD5 test vectors in http://www.nsrl.nist.gov/testdata/