This is getting me crazy, my md5's don't agree. I have this string:
The Combinations Generator is a tool that allows you to easily create a series of combinations by selecting the related attributes. For example, if you're selling t-shirts in three different sizes and two different colors, the generator will create six combinations for you.
When I hash it on my computer using the md5 function (with php 5.5.0) it produces the following hash: 422f3f656e1a5f95e8b5cf7565d815b5
http://www.miraclesalad.com/webtools/md5.php agrees with my computer's result.
http://www.md5.cz/ disagrees with both my computer and miraclesalad.
This string/md5 pair was initially computed by another computer which also gives the same result as md5.cz.
I read about encoding issues (although the string doesn't contain any non ASCII characters), so I tried the following code on my computer:
<?php
$str = "The Combinations Generator is a tool that allows you to easily create a series of combinations by selecting the related attributes. For example, if you're selling t-shirts in three different sizes and two different colors, the generator will create six combinations for you.";
echo "$str<BR/>";
echo md5($str)."<BR/>";
echo md5(utf8_encode($str))."<BR/>";
echo md5(utf8_decode($str))."<BR/>";
die();
The output is:
The Combinations Generator is a tool that allows you to easily create a series of combinations by selecting the related attributes. For example, if you're selling t-shirts in three different sizes and two different colors, the generator will create six combinations for you.
422f3f656e1a5f95e8b5cf7565d815b5
422f3f656e1a5f95e8b5cf7565d815b5
422f3f656e1a5f95e8b5cf7565d815b5
So it is not about utf8.
Any idea what's happening?
