Java equivalent api for perl method Digest::MD5 md5($data)

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Hi i wanted to know the java equivalent api for perl method Digest::MD5 md5($data) since it's output is in binary i am not able to compare it with java output. so far i have this java code MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5").digest($data) which returns byte[].

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Re: Java equivalent api for perl method Digest::MD5 md5($data) by Laurent_R (Canon) on Oct 15, 2015 at 08:14 UTC
If you are outputting your MD5 to binary files, it should be quite easy to verify that the files are identical, or at least to run a checksum on them. Or did I miss something?	[reply]
Re: Java equivalent api for perl method Digest::MD5 md5($data) by Anonymous Monk on Oct 15, 2015 at 06:35 UTC
use the hex representation, not the binary one, both APIs , see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5470219/java-get-md5-string-from-message-digest/5470268#5470268	[reply]