There are several md5 modules on npm, but none of them use the crypto node module.
Researching the performance impact of one vs another is tedious, and I just wanted to
use the core one without having to duplicate code all the time so I just implemented
this function as a separate module.
npm install --save crypto-md5
Returns a base64 md5 hash of the buffer or string. Can return an hex digest.
data: buffer or string to hashdigest: optional digest type. Can be base64 (default) or hexvar md5 = require('md5');
md5('foobar');
// OFj2IjCsPJFfMAxmQxLGPw==
md5('foobar', 'hex');
// 3858f62230ac3c915f300c664312c63f
Please open issues for bugs and suggestions in github. Pull requests with tests are welcome.
Jerome Touffe-Blin, @jtblin, About me
crypto-md5 is copyright 2015 Jerome Touffe-Blin and contributors. It is licensed under the BSD license. See the include LICENSE file for details.
FAQs
Simply expose crypto md5 as a single function
The npm package crypto-md5 receives a total of 179,396 weekly downloads. As such, crypto-md5 popularity was classified as popular.
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