MD2(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so Digest::MD2 — it's the Perl interface to the MD2 Algorithm ✨ that's the whole thing, that's the vibe 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bestie, you got two ways to do this and both are iconic 🫶

Functional style — just grab the functions and go:

# Functional style
use Digest::MD2  qw(md2 md2_hex md2_base64);

$digest = md2($data);
$digest = md2_hex($data);
$digest = md2_base64($data);

OO style — main character energy, you get an object:

# OO style
use Digest::MD2;

$ctx = Digest::MD2->new;

$ctx->add($data);
$ctx->addfile(*FILE);

$digest = $ctx->digest;
$digest = $ctx->hexdigest;
$digest = $ctx->b64digest;

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the tea is: Digest::MD2 lets you use the RSA Data Security Inc. MD2 Message Digest algorithm from right inside your Perl programs 💖 like, no cap, it's just there for you.

and what does the algorithm do? it takes a message of arbitrary length as input and produces as output a 128-bit "fingerprint" or "message digest" of the input 🎀 periodt.

also — the Digest::MD2 programming interface is identical to the interface of Digest::MD5 👑 so if you already know that one, you already know this one. iykyk 😌

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• Digest::MD5 — the sibling, the blueprint, the moment 💜

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🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

this library is free software 🫶 you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. slay.

Copyright 1998-2003 Gisle Aas.
Copyright 1990-1992 RSA Data Security, Inc.

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> 💌 king behavior, fr fr 💅

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and that's the whole page bestie 🧚 this came from perl v5.42.3 dated 2026-08-19, page MD2(3pm) — go forth and digest some messages 💖✨🌸