(Java) MD5 Hash a String (such as a password string)

Demonstrates how to MD5 hash a string to get MD5 hash in hex encoded string representation. (The MD5 hash is 16 bytes, and therefore a hex encoded MD5 hash would be 32 chars.)

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import com.chilkatsoft.*;

public class ChilkatExample {

  static {
    try {
        System.loadLibrary("chilkat");
    } catch (UnsatisfiedLinkError e) {
      System.err.println("Native code library failed to load.\n" + e);
      System.exit(1);
    }
  }

  public static void main(String argv[])
  {
    String password = "myPassword";

    CkCrypt2 crypt = new CkCrypt2();
    crypt.put_HashAlgorithm("md5");
    crypt.put_EncodingMode("hex");
    String md5Hex = crypt.hashStringENC(password);
    System.out.println("MD5 hash (as a hex string) = " + md5Hex);

    // The hex string will be uppercase.  Your application
    // can easily convert it to lowercase if desired via non-Chilkat means.
  }
}