http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/md5/new/2012-11-19T08:45:51-08:00ActiveState Code Recipes2012-11-19T08:45:51-08:00greg zakharovhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4184115/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578339-checking-hashes-of-files/

<p style="color: grey"> Ruby recipe 578339 by <a href="/recipes/users/4184115/">greg zakharov</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/hash/">hash</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/ironruby/">ironruby</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/md5/">md5</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/ripemd160/">ripemd160</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/sha1/">sha1</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/sha256/">sha256</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/sha384/">sha384</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/sha512/">sha512</a>). </p> <p>There is HashAlgorithm class in System.Security.Cryptography namespace which is stored into mscorlib, a core assembly of .NET Framework. So...</p>

2010-12-29T22:15:14-08:00Andrew Grigorevhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172098/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577523-eap-md5-8021x-supplicant/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 577523 by <a href="/recipes/users/4172098/">Andrew Grigorev</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/authentication/">authentication</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/eap/">eap</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/md5/">md5</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/networking/">networking</a>). </p> <p>802.1X EAP protocol supplicant (see RFC3748), supporting only MD5-Challenge authentication type. Linux only.</p>

2010-02-25T14:07:08-08:00Jayesh Shethhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173165/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577071-generate-an-alpha-numeric-password-salt/

<p style="color: grey"> PHP recipe 577071 by <a href="/recipes/users/4173165/">Jayesh Sheth</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/md5/">md5</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/password/">password</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/random_number/">random_number</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/salt/">salt</a>). </p> <p>Generate an alpha-numeric password salt (with a default of 32 characters)</p>

2009-12-06T19:02:40-08:00Stephen Akikihttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172143/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576973-getting-the-sha-1-or-md5-hash-of-a-directory/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 576973 by <a href="/recipes/users/4172143/">Stephen Akiki</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/directory/">directory</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/getting/">getting</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/hash/">hash</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/md5/">md5</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/sha_1/">sha_1</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/the/">the</a>). Revision 4. </p> <h5><a href="http://akiscode.com/articles/sha-1directoryhash.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://akiscode.com/articles/sha-1directoryhash.shtml</a></h5> <p>By definition a cryptographic hash is, "a deterministic procedure that takes an arbitrary block of data and returns a fixed-size bit string, the (cryptographic) hash value, such that an accidental or intentional change to the data will change the hash value". </p> <p>Usually these hashes are used on files to "fingerprint" them, but in order to do the same to a directory you have to do something like this: </p>