Compute MD5 hashes from a Prolog string. This library provides a lightweight alternative to the general secure hash interface provided by library(crypto) from the ssl package.

See also

- library(sha), library(hash_stream) and library(crypto).

 md5_hash(+Data, -Hash, +Options) is det

Hash is the MD5 hash of Data, The conversion is controlled by Options:

encoding(+Encoding)

If Data is a sequence of character codes, this must be translated into a sequence of bytes, because that is what the hashing requires. The default encoding is utf8. The other meaningful value is octet, claiming that Data contains raw bytes.

Arguments:

Data	- is either an atom, string, code-list or char-list.
Hash	- is an atom holding 32 characters, representing the hash in hexadecimal notation