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Asked: 2026-05-25T00:17:23+00:00

I want to encrypt hash some strings with MD5 in my Mac application. I

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I want to encrypt hash some strings with MD5 in my Mac application.

I Googled about it, but it keeps throwing me examples on how to do it with iPhone apps, like MD5 algorithm in Objective C or Using MD5 hash on a string in cocoa?…

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  1. Editorial Team

    MD5 is not encryption!. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function

    All of your examples do in fact work on OS X. CommonCrypto is part of libSystem. For a more complete example, I suggest this CocoaWithLove tutorial (and sample code!)

    http://cocoawithlove.com/2009/07/hashvalue-object-for-holding-md5-and.html

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