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| var crypto = require('crypto'); | |
| var md5sum = crypto.createHash('md5'); | |
| md5sum.update('shinout', 'utf8'); | |
| console.log(md5sum.digest('hex')); |
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The 2nd argument of md5sum.update ("utf8") is necessary for multi-byte strings.
Otherwise, we can get wrong result and collision would easily happen.
For example,
"場所": "place" in English
and
"水着" : "swimsuits" in English
return the same hash result if we omit the second argument.