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Node.js 5/6 crypto.createHash BUG #6813
Description
Windows and Mac，Node.js v5/v6：
var a = '010203334455667788AF02';
console.log(md5(Buffer(a,'hex').toString('binary'),'hex'));
echo : 9f4eeb2dc8cfc04768149dfb1036009c
Windows and Mac，Node.js v4/0.10.29：
var a = '010203334455667788AF02';
console.log(md5(Buffer(a,'hex').toString('binary'),'hex'));
echo : f4cb7e6847b063001b72646517a9f4c3
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yi-ge commentedon May 17, 2016
crypto.createHash('md5').update(str, 'binary').digest(type || 'binary'); sorry
jasnell commentedon May 17, 2016
Yes, the default encoding for digests was changed to
utf8in v5/v6. In v4 and earlier it wasbinary.addaleax commentedon May 17, 2016
@wy373226722 Why are you converting the input to a “binary” string anyway? MD5 and other hashes convert any input you pass to them to
Buffers back anyway.