When I run MD5 algorithm I am getting an output in numeric and a few lower case letters. Obviously it uses all numeric digits and rarely i saw some lower case alphabet letter. I need to understand what all the lower case values are in the MD5 output....
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MD5 produces an output of 16 bytes, i.e. 16 values between 0 and 255. What you see is probably an hexadecimal representation of those bytes: each byte is encoded as two characters taken among the digits ('0' to '9') and the first lowercase letters ('a' to 'f'). Each character is to be interpreted as having a numerical value between 0 and 15 ('a' is 10, 'b' is 11,... and 'f' is 15). In a pair of characters corresponding to a given byte, the first character has sixteenfold value. E.g., a byte of value 92 is represented as '5c' because 92 is equal to 5*16+12, and 'c' represents 12. |
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without knowing what implementation of the md5 algorithm your code is using, it's very likely that it's hexidecimal as that is somewhat standard output for md5 routines. See RFC 1321. |
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