[Gambas-user] crypt.md5 vs md5sum

[Adrien Prokopowicz]

Le lundi 11 juin 2012 15:39:16 Sebi a écrit :
> You should use echo -n to prevent it from printing a /n character. But
> anyway, they are different. -----Original Message-----
> From: Demosthenes Koptsis <demosthenesk at ...626...>
> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:59:10
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> Subject: [Gambas-user] crypt.md5 vs md5sum
> 
> hello,
> 
> i noticed a difference between crypt.md5 function and command md5sum.
> Both give different results
> 
> echo password | md5sum
> is different from
> crypt.md5("password")
> 
> why is that?
> 
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I've already got this problem too. That's because if you don't give any prefix, 
a random one is used. (see  
http://gambasdoc.org/help/comp/gb.crypt/crypt/md5?en&v3)

But I still don't undersand why...