Re: [ROOT] Problem with TMD5

From: Damon Spayde (spayde@jlab.org)
Date: Mon Jul 12 2004 - 17:09:10 MEST


Hi Fons,

Okay, thanks.

Regards,
Damon

Fons Rademakers wrote:
> Hi Damon,
> 
>   we use probably a different set of hash values than what is used in
> md5sum. I'll check and try to make TMD5 return the same value.
> 
> Cheers, Fons.
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 19:46, Damon Spayde wrote:
> 
>>I would like to use the TMD5 ROOT class to calculate MD5 checksums of 
>>certain files.  However, I have found that MD5 checksums calculated with 
>>TMD5 are not the same as those calculated with other methods, e.g. 
>>'md5sum' on Linux machines.  Below is the output of a ROOT script 
>>(attached as file md5test.cxx) that calculates the MD5 checksum of a 
>>zero-length string with TMD5 and the output from md5sum:
>>
>>[spayde@uiuc-gzero blinding]$ root -b md5test.cxx
>>   *******************************************
>>   *                                         *
>>   *        W E L C O M E  to  R O O T       *
>>   *                                         *
>>   *   Version   4.00/04       5 June 2004   *
>>   *                                         *
>>   *  You are welcome to visit our Web site  *
>>   *          http://root.cern.ch            *
>>   *                                         *
>>   *******************************************
>>
>>Compiled for linux with thread support.
>>
>>CINT/ROOT C/C++ Interpreter version 5.15.133, Apr 18 2004
>>Type ? for help. Commands must be C++ statements.
>>Enclose multiple statements between { }.
>>root [0]
>>Processing md5test.cxx...
>>MD5 Check Sum of Zero Length String:
>>227b7f48d21283f63bc9bbc15b44ea1a
>>root [1] .!echo -n "" | md5sum
>>d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e  -
>>root [2]
>>
>>I get similar results (the MD5 sums do not agree between the two 
>>methods) when using finite length strings or files.  I am running ROOT 
>>version 4.00/04 on a RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 system.  Any help would 
>>be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>					Regards,
>>					Damon

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