Golang使用MD5编码字符串UTF16 little endian和hash

Question

I am a Go beginner and stuck with a problem. I want to encode a string with UTF16 little endian and then hash it with MD5 (hexadecimal). I have found a piece of Python code, which does exactly what I want. But I am not able to transfer it to Google Go.

md5 = hashlib.md5()
md5.update(challenge.encode('utf-16le'))
response = md5.hexdigest()

The challenge is a variable containing a string.

Answer 1

You can do it with less work (or at least more understandability, IMO) by using golang.org/x/text/encoding and golang.org/x/text/transform to create a Writer chain that will do the encoding and hashing without so much manual byte slice handling. The equivalent function:

func utf16leMd5(s string) []byte {
    enc := unicode.UTF16(unicode.LittleEndian, unicode.IgnoreBOM).NewEncoder()
    hasher := md5.New()
    t := transform.NewWriter(hasher, enc)
    t.Write([]byte(s))
    return hasher.Sum(nil)
}