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How to turn MD5 into hexadecimal?

I am doing an advent of code problem and need to convert MD5 into hex, and I have no clue where to begin.

I tried multiple websites, but none helped, but there were some stack overflow questions that were just confusing.

Solution

  • What you need to do is to convert the secret string into MD5 hash. For that, use the hashlib library:

    from hashlib import md5

secret = 'abcdef609043'

print(md5(secret.encode()).hexdigest())

    Output:

    000001dbbfa3a5c83a2d506429c7b00e

    Brief explanation: You first need to get the bytes of the secret string with the .encode method, and then get the hexadecimal representation of the MD5 digest with .hexdigest().