Documentation of the module md5

by Peter Verhas

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1. Introduction

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2. The module MD5

=abstract Calculate the MD5 value of a string =end

This module delivers a single function MD5 that returns the MD5 digest of its argument.

  q = MD5("string")

Note that the return value is a 16 byte binary strig thus do not try to print it without first converting to some printable string.