How do I create an MD5 Hash of a string in Cocoa?

Question

I know SHA-1 is preferred, but this project requires I use MD5.

#include 

- (NSString*) MD5Hasher: (NSString*) query {
    NSData* hash         


        

Answer 1

Facebook uses this

#import <CommonCrypto/CommonDigest.h>

---

+ (NSString*)md5HexDigest:(NSString*)input {
    const char* str = [input UTF8String];
    unsigned char result[CC_MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH];
    CC_MD5(str, strlen(str), result);

    NSMutableString *ret = [NSMutableString stringWithCapacity:CC_MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH*2];
    for(int i = 0; i<CC_MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH; i++) {
        [ret appendFormat:@"%02x",result[i]];
    }
    return ret;
}

Or instance method

- (NSString *)md5 {
    const char* str = [self UTF8String];
    unsigned char result[CC_MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH];
    CC_MD5(str, (CC_LONG)strlen(str), result);

    NSMutableString *ret = [NSMutableString stringWithCapacity:CC_MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH*2];
    for(int i = 0; i<CC_MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH; i++) {
        [ret appendFormat:@"%02x",result[i]];
    }
    return ret;
}

Answer 2

This is the category I use:

NSString+MD5.h

@interface NSString (MD5)

- (NSString *)MD5String;

@end

NSString+MD5.m

#import <CommonCrypto/CommonDigest.h>

@implementation NSString (MD5)

- (NSString *)MD5String {
    const char *cStr = [self UTF8String];
    unsigned char result[CC_MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH];
    CC_MD5( cStr, (CC_LONG)strlen(cStr), result );

    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

Usage

NSString *myString = @"test";
NSString *md5 = [myString MD5String]; // returns NSString of the MD5 of test

Answer 3

I believe that digest is a pointer to a raw binary hash. In the next line you're attempting to interpret it as a UTF-8 string, but it is most likely not to contain legal UTF-8-encoded character sequences.

I expect what you want is to convert the 16-byte static array of unsigned char into 32 ASCII hexadecimal characters [0-9a-f] using whatever algorithm you see fit.

Answer 4

@implementation NSString (MD5)

+ (NSString *)formattedMD5:(const char *)data length:(unsigned long)len
{
    unsigned char *digest = MD5((unsigned const char *)data, len, NULL);
    NSMutableArray *values = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];

    for (int i = 0; i < strlen((char *)digest); i++)
    {
        char hexValue[4];
        sprintf(hexValue, "%02X", digest[i]);
        [values addObject:[NSString stringWithCString:hexValue length:strlen(hexValue)]];
    }

    // returns a formatted MD5 fingerprint like
    //      00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00
    return [values componentsJoinedByString:@":"];
}

@end

Answer 5

I had used this method:

NSString+MD5.h

@interface NSString (MD5)

- (NSString *)MD5;

@end

NSString+MD5.m

#import "NSString+MD5.h"
#import <CommonCrypto/CommonDigest.h>

@implementation NSString (MD5)

- (NSString *)MD5 {

    const char * pointer = self.UTF8String;
    unsigned char md5Buffer[CC_MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH];

    CC_MD5(pointer, (CC_LONG)strlen(pointer), md5Buffer);

    NSMutableString * string = [NSMutableString stringWithCapacity:CC_MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH * 2];
    for (int i = 0; i < CC_MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH; i++) {
        [string appendFormat:@"%02x", md5Buffer[i]];
    }

    return string;
}

@end

Usage:

NSString * myString = @"test";
NSString * md5 = [myString MD5];

Answer 6

The MD5 function does not return a C string, it returns a pointer to some bytes. You can't treat it as a string.

If you want to create a string, you need to build a string using the hex values of those bytes. Here is one way to do it as a category on NSData:

#import <CommonCrypto/CommonDigest.h>
@implementation NSData (MMAdditions)
- (NSString*)md5String
{
    unsigned char md5[CC_MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH];
    CC_MD5([self bytes], [self length], md5);
    return [NSString stringWithFormat: @"%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x",
            md5[0], md5[1],
            md5[2], md5[3],
            md5[4], md5[5],
            md5[6], md5[7],
            md5[8], md5[9],
            md5[10], md5[11],
            md5[12], md5[13],
            md5[14], md5[15]
            ];
}
@end