Use string function with raw string

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I am writing a program that will encrypt words from a list until the hash matches the one you are trying to decrypt.

The problem I am having is that when the hash is encrypted, it does not loose any of the whitespace characters and I get hashes like:

b'\x0by\x07\xb4\xe8\xd9\x90d\xaa\xd9\xe6\x1d\xfa\x92\xc2\xaf

and not 63eb1dea1692fc53800b20be983e9a8b

Is there any way I can get rid of all whitespaces before I encrypt?

This is my code:

import hashlib
def computeMD5hash(string):
    m = hashlib.md5()
    m.update(string.encode('utf-8'))
    md5string=m.digest()
    return md5string

wordlist = open('wordlist.txt', 'r')
words = wordlist.readlines()
words = [x.strip('\n') for x in words]
print("Searching...")
for i in words:
    for x in words:
        print(i+x)
        out = computeMD5hash(i+x)
        print(out)
        if out == '63eb1dea1692fc53800b20be983e9a8b':
            print(i+x)
            break

Edit: Sorry, it's not just whitespace, but there aren't supposed to be backslashes in the hash, and I feel like either the encoding is wrong or my method for encrypting is not correct. All I know is that the output is wrong, and I have checked it against multiple sources.

Sorry, it's not just whitespace, but there aren't supposed to be backslashes in the hash, and I feel like either the encoding is wrong or my method for encrypting is not correct. All I know is that the output is wrong, and I have checked it against multiple sources. — Beckett O'Brien
– Beckett O'Brien, Commented Mar 23, 2018 at 1:39

guichao · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-23 01:39:29Z

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def computeMD5hash(string):
    m = hashlib.md5()
    m.update(string.encode('utf-8'))
    md5string=m.hexdigest() # use hexdigest instead
    return md5string

answered Mar 23, 2018 at 1:39

guichao

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