Getting md5sum of a file through Crypto.js
cryptojs, fileapi, javascript, linux, md5
Solution
All strings in JavaScript - even "binary strings" - are actually UTF-16 characters. A "binary string" is one that chooses to use only the first 256 code points. Since the Latin-1 encoding also uses exactly the first 256 code points, you can convert the string to bytes using Latin-1.
var hash = CryptoJS.MD5(CryptoJS.enc.Latin1.parse(text));
Problem
I am trying to get the md5sum of a tar file to produce the same value when using the md5sum linux command and CryptoJS's MD5 method. In JavaScript I do (after a file has been put in an HTML form): ``` var reader = new FileReader(); reader.onloadend = function () { text = (reader.result); } reader.readAsBinaryString(document.getElementById("firmware_firmware").files[0]); var hash = CryptoJS.MD5(text); hash.toString(); ``` In Linux I do: ``` md5sum name_of_file.tar ``` Currently these two produce different results. How am I able to get JavaScript to get the contents of the tar file to be MD5ed in the same way that md5sum does on Linux? For a simple String, md5sum and CryptoJS produce the same value. Edit: With a file called Fred.txt, with content the content: "Fred", both md5sum and CryptoJS produce the same value: c624decb46fa3d60e824389311b252f6. On the update.tar file, the md5sum on linux gives me: 1f046eedb7d8279953d233e590830e4f, on CryptoJS it gives me: f0c3730e5a9863cffa0ba3fadd531788 Edit2: Further testing shows that this is actually a problem due to large file size such as 7 MegaBytes