Hello developers, have you ever given a thought about securing your content when it is being used in communication? If yes then this blog might help you in achieving so.
MD5 stands for Message Digest(5 denotes the series), which is a hashing algorithm used for generating the fingerprint of the content. It was designed in 1991 by Ronald Rivest at MIT.
MD5 algorithm is a one way hashing process which means you cannot generate original text from the hash code.It always produces the same output for the similar input, and this property is used for checking the data integrity. You can compare the two hash codes at destination(one which is received from server and one which is already present at destination) and check whether the files contains the same content or not.
MD5 is collision resistant as no two string content can ever have the same hash code.It generates 16 byte hash code which is expressed as 32 digit Hexadecimal number. Generally MD5 is used to generate fingerprints of small strings such as passwords.
So after reading the theory lets move on to some coding which I guess you all be waiting for:
This is the layout for my Activity
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_margin="@dimen/margin"
tools:context="com.mfsi.messagedigest.MainActivity$PlaceholderFragment" >
<EditText
android:id="@+id/stringdata"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:inputType="text"
/>
<Button
android:id="@+id/convert"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@id/stringdata"
android:padding="5dp"
android:text="@string/convert_button" />
<Button
android:id="@+id/reset"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@id/stringdata"
android:padding="5dp"
android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/convert"
android:text="@string/reset_button" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/encryptdata"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@+id/convert" />
</RelativeLayout>
This is my Activity.
public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity implements OnClickListener {
private EditText mDataEditText;
private TextView mMd5Text;
private Button mConvertButton;
private Button mResetButton;
//String to be encoded
private String mEncryptString = null;
//Encoded string
private String mMD5EncryptCode = null;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
//Initialization
mDataEditText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.stringdata);
mMd5Text = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.encryptdata);
mConvertButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.convert);
mResetButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.reset);
mConvertButton.setOnClickListener(this);
mResetButton.setOnClickListener(this);
}
/*
* Creating the hash code and setting the code into the TextView
* @see android.view.View.OnClickListener#onClick(android.view.View)
*/
@Override
public void onClick(View iView) {
switch (iView.getId()) {
case R.id.convert:
//Fetching the data from Edittext to String
mEncryptString = mDataEditText.getText().toString().trim();
MessageDigest messageDigest =null;
try {
messageDigest = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
} catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "No such algorithm found", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
messageDigest.update(mEncryptString.getBytes());
mMD5EncryptCode = new BigInteger(1,messageDigest.digest()).toString(16);
mMd5Text.setText("Hash Code is:"+mMD5EncryptCode);
break;
case R.id.reset:
mDataEditText.setText("");
mMd5Text.setText("");
break;
}
}
}
Below is the screenshot of the result achieved.
I hope you find it helpful. Thanks for reading.
Written By: – Ankit Khare, Software Developer, Mindfire Solutions
MindfireMobile 