How to generate an MD5 file hash in JavaScript/Node.js?

How to write functionToGenerateMD5hash for this code? I already have fileVideo and I need to send the corresponding md5 hash to the server by clicking on the button.

$("#someButton").click(function() {
var fr = new FileReader();      
fr.onload = function(e) {            
    string md5 = functionToGenerateMD5hash(e.target.result);
    // send md5 here
};       
fr.readAsArrayBuffer(fileVideo);

Also, can you use this to generate a MD5 hash in Node.js?


If you don't want to use libraries or other things, you can use this native javascript approach:

var MD5 = function(d){var r = M(V(Y(X(d),8*d.length)));return r.toLowerCase()};function M(d){for(var _,m="0123456789ABCDEF",f="",r=0;r<d.length;r++)_=d.charCodeAt(r),f+=m.charAt(_>>>4&15)+m.charAt(15&_);return f}function X(d){for(var _=Array(d.length>>2),m=0;m<_.length;m++)_[m]=0;for(m=0;m<8*d.length;m+=8)_[m>>5]|=(255&d.charCodeAt(m/8))<<m%32;return _}function V(d){for(var _="",m=0;m<32*d.length;m+=8)_+=String.fromCharCode(d[m>>5]>>>m%32&255);return _}function Y(d,_){d[_>>5]|=128<<_%32,d[14+(_+64>>>9<<4)]=_;for(var m=1732584193,f=-271733879,r=-1732584194,i=271733878,n=0;n<d.length;n+=16){var h=m,t=f,g=r,e=i;f=md5_ii(f=md5_ii(f=md5_ii(f=md5_ii(f=md5_hh(f=md5_hh(f=md5_hh(f=md5_hh(f=md5_gg(f=md5_gg(f=md5_gg(f=md5_gg(f=md5_ff(f=md5_ff(f=md5_ff(f=md5_ff(f,r=md5_ff(r,i=md5_ff(i,m=md5_ff(m,f,r,i,d[n+0],7,-680876936),f,r,d[n+1],12,-389564586),m,f,d[n+2],17,606105819),i,m,d[n+3],22,-1044525330),r=md5_ff(r,i=md5_ff(i,m=md5_ff(m,f,r,i,d[n+4],7,-176418897),f,r,d[n+5],12,1200080426),m,f,d[n+6],17,-1473231341),i,m,d[n+7],22,-45705983),r=md5_ff(r,i=md5_ff(i,m=md5_ff(m,f,r,i,d[n+8],7,1770035416),f,r,d[n+9],12,-1958414417),m,f,d[n+10],17,-42063),i,m,d[n+11],22,-1990404162),r=md5_ff(r,i=md5_ff(i,m=md5_ff(m,f,r,i,d[n+12],7,1804603682),f,r,d[n+13],12,-40341101),m,f,d[n+14],17,-1502002290),i,m,d[n+15],22,1236535329),r=md5_gg(r,i=md5_gg(i,m=md5_gg(m,f,r,i,d[n+1],5,-165796510),f,r,d[n+6],9,-1069501632),m,f,d[n+11],14,643717713),i,m,d[n+0],20,-373897302),r=md5_gg(r,i=md5_gg(i,m=md5_gg(m,f,r,i,d[n+5],5,-701558691),f,r,d[n+10],9,38016083),m,f,d[n+15],14,-660478335),i,m,d[n+4],20,-405537848),r=md5_gg(r,i=md5_gg(i,m=md5_gg(m,f,r,i,d[n+9],5,568446438),f,r,d[n+14],9,-1019803690),m,f,d[n+3],14,-187363961),i,m,d[n+8],20,1163531501),r=md5_gg(r,i=md5_gg(i,m=md5_gg(m,f,r,i,d[n+13],5,-1444681467),f,r,d[n+2],9,-51403784),m,f,d[n+7],14,1735328473),i,m,d[n+12],20,-1926607734),r=md5_hh(r,i=md5_hh(i,m=md5_hh(m,f,r,i,d[n+5],4,-378558),f,r,d[n+8],11,-2022574463),m,f,d[n+11],16,1839030562),i,m,d[n+14],23,-35309556),r=md5_hh(r,i=md5_hh(i,m=md5_hh(m,f,r,i,d[n+1],4,-1530992060),f,r,d[n+4],11,1272893353),m,f,d[n+7],16,-155497632),i,m,d[n+10],23,-1094730640),r=md5_hh(r,i=md5_hh(i,m=md5_hh(m,f,r,i,d[n+13],4,681279174),f,r,d[n+0],11,-358537222),m,f,d[n+3],16,-722521979),i,m,d[n+6],23,76029189),r=md5_hh(r,i=md5_hh(i,m=md5_hh(m,f,r,i,d[n+9],4,-640364487),f,r,d[n+12],11,-421815835),m,f,d[n+15],16,530742520),i,m,d[n+2],23,-995338651),r=md5_ii(r,i=md5_ii(i,m=md5_ii(m,f,r,i,d[n+0],6,-198630844),f,r,d[n+7],10,1126891415),m,f,d[n+14],15,-1416354905),i,m,d[n+5],21,-57434055),r=md5_ii(r,i=md5_ii(i,m=md5_ii(m,f,r,i,d[n+12],6,1700485571),f,r,d[n+3],10,-1894986606),m,f,d[n+10],15,-1051523),i,m,d[n+1],21,-2054922799),r=md5_ii(r,i=md5_ii(i,m=md5_ii(m,f,r,i,d[n+8],6,1873313359),f,r,d[n+15],10,-30611744),m,f,d[n+6],15,-1560198380),i,m,d[n+13],21,1309151649),r=md5_ii(r,i=md5_ii(i,m=md5_ii(m,f,r,i,d[n+4],6,-145523070),f,r,d[n+11],10,-1120210379),m,f,d[n+2],15,718787259),i,m,d[n+9],21,-343485551),m=safe_add(m,h),f=safe_add(f,t),r=safe_add(r,g),i=safe_add(i,e)}return Array(m,f,r,i)}function md5_cmn(d,_,m,f,r,i){return safe_add(bit_rol(safe_add(safe_add(_,d),safe_add(f,i)),r),m)}function md5_ff(d,_,m,f,r,i,n){return md5_cmn(_&m|~_&f,d,_,r,i,n)}function md5_gg(d,_,m,f,r,i,n){return md5_cmn(_&f|m&~f,d,_,r,i,n)}function md5_hh(d,_,m,f,r,i,n){return md5_cmn(_^m^f,d,_,r,i,n)}function md5_ii(d,_,m,f,r,i,n){return md5_cmn(m^(_|~f),d,_,r,i,n)}function safe_add(d,_){var m=(65535&d)+(65535&_);return(d>>16)+(_>>16)+(m>>16)<<16|65535&m}function bit_rol(d,_){return d<<_|d>>>32-_}

/** NORMAL words**/
var value = 'test';

var result = MD5(value);
 
document.body.innerHTML = 'hash -  normal words: ' + result;

/** NON ENGLISH words**/
value = 'מבחן'

//unescape() can be deprecated for the new browser versions
result = MD5(unescape(encodeURIComponent(value)));

document.body.innerHTML += '<br><br>hash - non english words: ' + result;
 

For non english words you may need to use unescape() and the encodeURIComponent() methods.


CryptoJS is a crypto library which can generate md5 hash among others:

Usage with Script tag:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/crypto-js/4.0.0/core.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/crypto-js/3.1.9-1/md5.js"></script>
<script>
   var hash = CryptoJS.MD5("Message");
   alert(hash);
</script>

Alternatively with ES6:

npm install crypto-js

import MD5 from "crypto-js/md5";
console.log(MD5("Message").toString());

You can also use modular imports:

var MD5 = require("crypto-js/md5");
console.log(MD5("Message").toString());

Github: https://github.com/brix/crypto-js

CDN: https://cdnjs.com/libraries/crypto-js


You could use crypto-js.

I would also recommend using SHA256, rather than MD5.

To install crypto-js via NPM:

npm install crypto-js

Alternatively you can use a CDN and reference the JS file.

Then to display a MD5 and SHA256 hash, you can do the following:

<script type="text/javascript">
    var md5Hash = CryptoJS.MD5("Test");
    var sha256Hash = CryptoJS.SHA256("Test1");

    console.log(md5Hash.toString());
    console.log(sha256Hash.toString());
</script>

Working example located here, JSFiddle

There are also other JS functions that will generate an MD5 hash, outlined below.

http://www.myersdaily.org/joseph/javascript/md5-text.html

http://pajhome.org.uk/crypt/md5/md5.html

function md5cycle(x, k) {
var a = x[0], b = x[1], c = x[2], d = x[3];

a = ff(a, b, c, d, k[0], 7, -680876936);
d = ff(d, a, b, c, k[1], 12, -389564586);
c = ff(c, d, a, b, k[2], 17,  606105819);
b = ff(b, c, d, a, k[3], 22, -1044525330);
a = ff(a, b, c, d, k[4], 7, -176418897);
d = ff(d, a, b, c, k[5], 12,  1200080426);
c = ff(c, d, a, b, k[6], 17, -1473231341);
b = ff(b, c, d, a, k[7], 22, -45705983);
a = ff(a, b, c, d, k[8], 7,  1770035416);
d = ff(d, a, b, c, k[9], 12, -1958414417);
c = ff(c, d, a, b, k[10], 17, -42063);
b = ff(b, c, d, a, k[11], 22, -1990404162);
a = ff(a, b, c, d, k[12], 7,  1804603682);
d = ff(d, a, b, c, k[13], 12, -40341101);
c = ff(c, d, a, b, k[14], 17, -1502002290);
b = ff(b, c, d, a, k[15], 22,  1236535329);

a = gg(a, b, c, d, k[1], 5, -165796510);
d = gg(d, a, b, c, k[6], 9, -1069501632);
c = gg(c, d, a, b, k[11], 14,  643717713);
b = gg(b, c, d, a, k[0], 20, -373897302);
a = gg(a, b, c, d, k[5], 5, -701558691);
d = gg(d, a, b, c, k[10], 9,  38016083);
c = gg(c, d, a, b, k[15], 14, -660478335);
b = gg(b, c, d, a, k[4], 20, -405537848);
a = gg(a, b, c, d, k[9], 5,  568446438);
d = gg(d, a, b, c, k[14], 9, -1019803690);
c = gg(c, d, a, b, k[3], 14, -187363961);
b = gg(b, c, d, a, k[8], 20,  1163531501);
a = gg(a, b, c, d, k[13], 5, -1444681467);
d = gg(d, a, b, c, k[2], 9, -51403784);
c = gg(c, d, a, b, k[7], 14,  1735328473);
b = gg(b, c, d, a, k[12], 20, -1926607734);

a = hh(a, b, c, d, k[5], 4, -378558);
d = hh(d, a, b, c, k[8], 11, -2022574463);
c = hh(c, d, a, b, k[11], 16,  1839030562);
b = hh(b, c, d, a, k[14], 23, -35309556);
a = hh(a, b, c, d, k[1], 4, -1530992060);
d = hh(d, a, b, c, k[4], 11,  1272893353);
c = hh(c, d, a, b, k[7], 16, -155497632);
b = hh(b, c, d, a, k[10], 23, -1094730640);
a = hh(a, b, c, d, k[13], 4,  681279174);
d = hh(d, a, b, c, k[0], 11, -358537222);
c = hh(c, d, a, b, k[3], 16, -722521979);
b = hh(b, c, d, a, k[6], 23,  76029189);
a = hh(a, b, c, d, k[9], 4, -640364487);
d = hh(d, a, b, c, k[12], 11, -421815835);
c = hh(c, d, a, b, k[15], 16,  530742520);
b = hh(b, c, d, a, k[2], 23, -995338651);

a = ii(a, b, c, d, k[0], 6, -198630844);
d = ii(d, a, b, c, k[7], 10,  1126891415);
c = ii(c, d, a, b, k[14], 15, -1416354905);
b = ii(b, c, d, a, k[5], 21, -57434055);
a = ii(a, b, c, d, k[12], 6,  1700485571);
d = ii(d, a, b, c, k[3], 10, -1894986606);
c = ii(c, d, a, b, k[10], 15, -1051523);
b = ii(b, c, d, a, k[1], 21, -2054922799);
a = ii(a, b, c, d, k[8], 6,  1873313359);
d = ii(d, a, b, c, k[15], 10, -30611744);
c = ii(c, d, a, b, k[6], 15, -1560198380);
b = ii(b, c, d, a, k[13], 21,  1309151649);
a = ii(a, b, c, d, k[4], 6, -145523070);
d = ii(d, a, b, c, k[11], 10, -1120210379);
c = ii(c, d, a, b, k[2], 15,  718787259);
b = ii(b, c, d, a, k[9], 21, -343485551);

x[0] = add32(a, x[0]);
x[1] = add32(b, x[1]);
x[2] = add32(c, x[2]);
x[3] = add32(d, x[3]);

}

function cmn(q, a, b, x, s, t) {
a = add32(add32(a, q), add32(x, t));
return add32((a << s) | (a >>> (32 - s)), b);
}

function ff(a, b, c, d, x, s, t) {
return cmn((b & c) | ((~b) & d), a, b, x, s, t);
}

function gg(a, b, c, d, x, s, t) {
return cmn((b & d) | (c & (~d)), a, b, x, s, t);
}

function hh(a, b, c, d, x, s, t) {
return cmn(b ^ c ^ d, a, b, x, s, t);
}

function ii(a, b, c, d, x, s, t) {
return cmn(c ^ (b | (~d)), a, b, x, s, t);
}

function md51(s) {
txt = '';
var n = s.length,
state = [1732584193, -271733879, -1732584194, 271733878], i;
for (i=64; i<=s.length; i+=64) {
md5cycle(state, md5blk(s.substring(i-64, i)));
}
s = s.substring(i-64);
var tail = [0,0,0,0, 0,0,0,0, 0,0,0,0, 0,0,0,0];
for (i=0; i<s.length; i++)
tail[i>>2] |= s.charCodeAt(i) << ((i%4) << 3);
tail[i>>2] |= 0x80 << ((i%4) << 3);
if (i > 55) {
md5cycle(state, tail);
for (i=0; i<16; i++) tail[i] = 0;
}
tail[14] = n*8;
md5cycle(state, tail);
return state;
}

/* there needs to be support for Unicode here,
 * unless we pretend that we can redefine the MD-5
 * algorithm for multi-byte characters (perhaps
 * by adding every four 16-bit characters and
 * shortening the sum to 32 bits). Otherwise
 * I suggest performing MD-5 as if every character
 * was two bytes--e.g., 0040 0025 = @%--but then
 * how will an ordinary MD-5 sum be matched?
 * There is no way to standardize text to something
 * like UTF-8 before transformation; speed cost is
 * utterly prohibitive. The JavaScript standard
 * itself needs to look at this: it should start
 * providing access to strings as preformed UTF-8
 * 8-bit unsigned value arrays.
 */
function md5blk(s) { /* I figured global was faster.   */
var md5blks = [], i; /* Andy King said do it this way. */
for (i=0; i<64; i+=4) {
md5blks[i>>2] = s.charCodeAt(i)
+ (s.charCodeAt(i+1) << 8)
+ (s.charCodeAt(i+2) << 16)
+ (s.charCodeAt(i+3) << 24);
}
return md5blks;
}

var hex_chr = '0123456789abcdef'.split('');

function rhex(n)
{
var s='', j=0;
for(; j<4; j++)
s += hex_chr[(n >> (j * 8 + 4)) & 0x0F]
+ hex_chr[(n >> (j * 8)) & 0x0F];
return s;
}

function hex(x) {
for (var i=0; i<x.length; i++)
x[i] = rhex(x[i]);
return x.join('');
}

function md5(s) {
return hex(md51(s));
}

/* this function is much faster,
so if possible we use it. Some IEs
are the only ones I know of that
need the idiotic second function,
generated by an if clause.  */

function add32(a, b) {
return (a + b) & 0xFFFFFFFF;
}

if (md5('hello') != '5d41402abc4b2a76b9719d911017c592') {
function add32(x, y) {
var lsw = (x & 0xFFFF) + (y & 0xFFFF),
msw = (x >> 16) + (y >> 16) + (lsw >> 16);
return (msw << 16) | (lsw & 0xFFFF);
}
}

Then simply use the MD5 function, as shown below:

alert(md5("Test string"));

Another working JS Fiddle here