iaik.security.md

Class Md5

java.lang.Object

java.security.MessageDigestSpi

java.security.MessageDigest

iaik.security.md.AbstractMessageDigest

iaik.security.md.Md5

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Cloneable

public class Md5
extends AbstractMessageDigest

This class implements the MD5 message digest algorithm.

A message digest algorithm represents the functionality of an one-way hash function for computing a fixed sized data value (message digest, hash) from input data of arbitrary size. The length of the resulting hash value usually is shorter than the length of the input data. Using a one-way hash function will make it easy to compute the hash from the given data, but hard to go the reverse way for calculating the input data when only the hash is known. Furthermore, a proper hash function should avoid any collision, meaning that it has to be hard to find two different messages producing the same hash value.

The MD5 message digest algorithm produces a 128-bit hash-value of the given input data. First the input data is properly padded and subsequently extended by a 64-Bit representation of the data's original length to become a multiple of 512 Bit. The resulting text is divided into 512-Bit blocks, each of it again divided into sixteen 32-Bit sub-blocks. Each of the 512-Bit blocks is processed in a main loop. Input of the main loop are four 32-Bit variables, which are properly initialized with constant values for the first main loop run processing the first 512-Bit block. Each main loop run is featured with a new 512-Bit block as long as there blocks available. Each main loop run produces an output of four 32-Bit variables which are added to the initial four 32-bit variables to be fed into the next main loop run for processing the next 512-Bit block. When no further 512-Bit block is available, the algorithm leaves the main loop and calculates the final 128-Bit hash output by concatenating the four 32-Bit variables resulting from the last main loop run. The main loop consists of four rounds based on a certain nonlinear function (see "Applied Cryptography", Bruce Schneier, ISBN 0-471-59756-2).

This class extends the java.security.MessageDigest class and applications should use one of the getInstance methods presented there to create a MessageDigest-MD5 object. Generally, an application wishing to compute the message digest of some data has to perform three steps:

• First an instance of the desired message digest algorithm has to be created using a proper getInstance method, e.g.:

       MessageDigest md5 = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
       

• Second, the data to be hashed is supplied to the MessageDigest object just created by one or more calls to one of the update methods, e.g:
  

       md5.update(m1);
       md5.update(m2);
       ...
       

• Finally, the hash value can be computed using one of the digest methods:
  

        byte[] hash_value = md5.digest();
        

There are several ways for combining update and digest methods for computing a message digest. Since this class implements the Cloneable interface, MD5 MessageDigest objects may be used for compute intermediate hashes through cloning (see http://java.sun.com/products/JDK/1.2/docs/guide/security/CryptoSpec.html).

When the hash value successfully has been computed, the MD5 MessageDigest object automatically resets for being able to be supplied with new data to be hashed.

The MD5 algorithm may be combined with a public-key algorithm (e.g. RSA) to be used as digital signature algorithm (see iaik.security.rsa.Md5RSASignature).

Version:

File Revision 31

See Also:

Md5RSASignature, MessageDigest

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Md5() Creates a new MD5 message digest object.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.Object	clone() Returns a clone of this Md5 Object.
protected void	engineReset() SPI: Resets this MD5 message digest object for being supplied with new data.

Methods inherited from class iaik.security.md.AbstractMessageDigest

engineDigest, engineDigest, engineGetDigestLength, engineUpdate, engineUpdate

Methods inherited from class java.security.MessageDigest

digest, digest, digest, getAlgorithm, getDigestLength, getInstance, getInstance, getInstance, getProvider, isEqual, reset, toString, update, update, update, update

Methods inherited from class java.security.MessageDigestSpi

engineUpdate

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Md5

public Md5()

Creates a new MD5 message digest object. Applications do not use this constructor. They shall use

 MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");

for creating a messageDigest object.

See Also:

MessageDigest.getInstance(java.lang.String)

Method Detail

clone

public java.lang.Object clone()

Returns a clone of this Md5 Object.

Overrides:

clone in class AbstractMessageDigest

Returns:

a clone of this Md5 Object

engineReset

protected void engineReset()

SPI: Resets this MD5 message digest object for being supplied with new data.

This method is called by engineDigest after the actual hash computation has been finished to automatically reset the message digest object for being supplied with new data for starting a new hash computation.

Specified by:

engineReset in class AbstractMessageDigest

See Also:

MessageDigestSpi.engineReset()