calculate MD5 checksum for a file
I want to write a java program to calculate MD5 checksum for a tomcat
file downloaded from apache's site:
http://www.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-5/v5.5.17/bin/apache-tomcat-5.5.17.exe.MD5
0bb2827c5eacf570b6064e24e0e6653b *apache-tomcat-5.5.17.exe
Here's the code I wrote, but I got the result
740171421a803f50dd573fd38b469a9b, which is different from the one in
tomcat's site. I am using the hex result.
byte[] b = createChecksum(args[0]);
for (int i=0; i<b.length; i++)
{
String s = Integer.toString( ( b[i] & 0xff ) + 0x100, 16 /* radix */
).substring( 1 );
System.out.print(s);
}
public static byte[] createChecksum(String filename) throws
Exception{
InputStream fis = new FileInputStream(filename);
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
MessageDigest complete = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
int numRead;
do {
numRead = fis.read(buffer);
if (numRead > 0) {
complete.update(buffer, 0, numRead);
}
} while (numRead != -1);
fis.close();
return complete.digest();
}
Any ideas why? please advise.
thanks!!
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