MD5 Hash of a an Array of Bytes

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Below is all you need to know to calculate the MD5 hash of an array of bytes in Java. It's actually surprisingly simple. Go Java!

import java.security.*;

...

MessageDigest md5;
byte[] digest = new byte[] {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0};

byte[] my_bytes;

try {
md5 = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
md5.update(my_bytes);
digest = md5.digest();
} catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
  System.err.println("Couldn't find MD5 algorithm");
}

After running this code, the byte array digest will contain the MD5 hash of the data in my_bytes.