Question

I have a function that generates a MD5 hash in C# like this:

MD5 md5 = new MD5CryptoServiceProvider();
byte[] result = md5.ComputeHash(data);
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for (int i = 0; i < result.Length; i++)
{
    sb.Append(result[i].ToString("X2"));
}
return sb.ToString();

In java my function looks like this:

MessageDigest m = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
m.update(bytes,0,bytes.length);

String hashcode = new BigInteger(1,m.digest()).toString(16);
return hashcode;

While the C# code generates: “02945C9171FBFEF0296D22B0607D522D” the java codes generates: “5a700e63fa29a8eae77ebe0443d59239”.

Is there a way to generate the same md5 hash for the same bytearray?

On demand:

This is the testcode in java:

File file = new File(System.getProperty("user.dir") + "/HashCodeTest.flv");
byte[] bytes = null;
try {
    bytes = FileUtils.getBytesFromFile(file);
} catch (IOException e) {
    fail();
}
try {
    generatedHashCode = HashCode.generate(bytes);
} catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
    fail();
}

and this is my code in C#

var blob = GetBlobByHttpPostedFile(httpPostedFile);
var hashCode = Md5Factory.ConvertByteArray(blob);

private static byte[] GetBlobByHttpPostedFile(HttpPostedFile httpPostedFile)
{
    var contentLength = httpPostedFile.ContentLength; 
    var result = new byte[contentLength];
    var inputStream = httpPostedFile.InputStream;
    inputStream.Read(result, 0, contentLength);

    return result;
}

Cheers

Answer 1

That should be fine – although you could make the Java code simpler by just calling

byte[] digest = m.digest(bytes);

instead of calling update then digest.

Are you absolutely sure you’ve got the same data in both cases? Could you post sample programs showing this failing with the same hard-coded data?

EDIT: Here’s the sort of test I was thinking of. These two programs give the same result:

C#:

using System;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.Text;

class Test
{
    static void Main()
    {
        byte[] bytes = { 0x35, 0x24, 0x76, 0x12 };
        MD5 md5 = new MD5CryptoServiceProvider();
        byte[] result = md5.ComputeHash(bytes);
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        for (int i = 0; i < result.Length; i++)
        {
            sb.Append(result[i].ToString("x2"));
        }
        Console.WriteLine(sb);
    }
}

Java:

import java.math.BigInteger;
import java.security.MessageDigest;

public class Test
{
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
    {
        byte[] bytes = { 0x35, 0x24, 0x76, 0x12 };
        MessageDigest m = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
        byte[] digest = m.digest(bytes);
        String hash = new BigInteger(1, digest).toString(16);
        System.out.println(hash);
    }
}