Question

I have attempted to encrypt this string with MD5:

lolno

I use the module use Digest::MD5 and my output was:

τ;å▌3Gùφ▄♥ H≤Gj╠

I know that this is not MD5 so Id like to ask how I could make this work?Here’s the code I used:

use Digest::MD5;
$ctx = Digest::MD5->new;
$ctx->add($pass);
$digest = $ctx->digest;
print $digest;

I also tried:

use Digest::MD5 qw(md5);
$test = md5($pass);
print $test;

Answer 1

Try md5_hex (hexdigest for the first snippet) to see what you seem to expect. This is a binary representation presented as characters.