Hey, The method below works fine for me. No extra dependencies. Just worked. So, not at all helpful other than perhaps something wonky with your java install?
Jake import java.security.MessageDigest; private static String md5Hex (String email) { try { MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5"); // more stuff } catch (Exception ex) { /* No Action */ } } On Jun 10, 2:42 pm, Michael <mrher...@gmail.com> wrote: > Any ideas on what is wrong then? > > On Jun 10, 1:03 pm, Nacho Coloma <icol...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > That should not be your > > problem:http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/jrewhitelist.html > > > I am using MD5 in AppEngine without issues. > > > On Jun 10, 3:17 pm, Michael <mrher...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I am pretty new to app engine (and Java) and I am seem to have run in > > > to a wall. I want to do an MD5 hash and I was trying to use the > > > java.security package, but I get: > > > [ERROR] Line 3: The import java.security cannot be resolved > > > > I am thinking that it is because app engine can't use java.security? > > > > Here is the MD5 code I have > > > > import java.security.MessageDigest; > > > import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException; > > > ... > > > try { > > > MessageDigest digest = java.security.MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5"); > > > digest.update("test".getBytes()); > > > PW = digest.digest().toString(); > > > > } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) { > > > } > > > > Am I doing something wrong, or is there a different way to get a MD5 > > > hash? I also need to do the same thing client side using GWT if their > > > is any advice for that too. > > > > Thanks > > > Michael -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.