Could someone enlighten me where I'm going wrong.
I can't convert the byte array produced from the hash sum function by casting with string, I have to use Sprintf.
Here is a snippet of the code:
f, _ := os.Open(filename)
hash := md5.New()
io.Copy(hash, f)
hashStringGood := fmt.Sprintf("%x", hash.Sum(nil))
hashStringJunk := string(hash.Sum(nil)[:])
hasStringGood would result in d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
hashStringJunk would result in ��ُ�� ���B~
CodePudding user response:
MD5 hash is a 128-bit value. If you convert it to a string, you get 16 bytes of binary data, many of which will be unprintable. You have to convert that to a string using fmt.Sprintf
or some other method.
CodePudding user response:
When you convert random binary data to a string without an encoding scheme, it's very unlikely that the data will map to a sequence of printable characters.
The %x
verb from the fmt
package is a convenience method for hex-encoding binary data. From the "String and slice of bytes" section of the verb definitions in the fmt
package documentation:
%s the uninterpreted bytes of the string or slice
%q a double-quoted string safely escaped with Go syntax
%x base 16, lower-case, two characters per byte
Alternatively, you can use packages nested underneath the encoding
package to encode the data:
package main
import (
"crypto/md5"
"encoding/base64"
"encoding/hex"
"fmt"
)
func main() {
hash := md5.Sum([]byte("input to be hashed"))
fmt.Printf("Using %%s verb: %s\n", hash)
fmt.Printf("Using %%q verb: %q\n", hash)
fmt.Printf("Using %%x verb: %x\n", hash)
hexHash := hex.EncodeToString(hash[:])
fmt.Printf("Converted to a hex-encoded string: %s\n", hexHash)
base64Hash := base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(hash[:])
fmt.Printf("Converted to a base64-encoded string: %s\n", base64Hash)
}
Output
Using %s verb: �����Q���6���5�
Using %q verb: "\x8d\xa8\xf1\xf8\x06\xd3Q\x9d\xa1\xe46\xdb\xfb\x9f5\xd7"
Using %x verb: 8da8f1f806d3519da1e436dbfb9f35d7
Converted to a hex-encoded string: 8da8f1f806d3519da1e436dbfb9f35d7
Converted to a base64-encoded string: jajx AbTUZ2h5Dbb 5811w==