README.md

rust_md5

This is a very simple implementation of the md5 specification - RFC 1321 used to begin learning Rust. In particular, it makes no attempt to be efficient, e.g., it reads all the input data before starting processing, rather than streaming.

Usage

First, build the project with cargo build. It mimics the usage of md5sum thusly:

> echo 'hi there' | ./target/debug/rust_md5
12f6bb1941df66b8f138a446d4e8670c -

or

> echo 'unicode, ok ✔' > file.txt
> ./target/debug/rust_md5 file.txt
34a7fafe48ccb9d3f18f09949cbfa96f file.txt

There are some simple test cases taken from the specification, which can be executed with cargo test.