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I have been working with some hashing but _Crypt_HashData is acting weird. After I use BinaryToString on the output, I get weird things like PÃÆ/þc7æäòð°}ö<. Can anyone help?

I am on windows 10 if it matters, upgraded yesterday

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No surprise here: you get exactly what you ask for.

Q - "What do you think a random binary hash looks like, once interpreted as a string?"
A - "Unicode garbage"

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No, the function returns the hash, no need to convert it to a string to see it, it's already a string.

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As the help file clearly mentions, the output is a BINARY variant. Obtaining the hex value of the hash is soooo simple that I don't know if this is of any use.

Local $bHash = _Crypt_HashData("Original data to be hashed", $CALG_MD5)
ConsoleWrite(VarGetType($bHash) & " = " & String($bHash) & " which simply prints as " & StringTrimLeft($bHash, 2) & @LF)

 

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1 hour ago, jchd said:

As the help file clearly mentions, the output is a BINARY variant. Obtaining the hex value of the hash is soooo simple that I don't know if this is of any use.

Local $bHash = _Crypt_HashData("Original data to be hashed", $CALG_MD5)
ConsoleWrite(VarGetType($bHash) & " = " & String($bHash) & " which simply prints as " & StringTrimLeft($bHash, 2) & @LF)

 

 

I got it now, thanks a lot! I haven't work with hashing much before.

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