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md2_base64); $digest = md2($data); $digest = md2_hex($data); $digest = md2_base64($data); # OO style use Digest::MD2; $ctx = Digest::MD2->new; $ctx->add($data); $ctx->addfile(*FILE); $digest = $ctx->digest; $digest = $ctx->hexdigest; $digest = $ctx->b64digest;</code></pre> <h1 id="DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</h1> <p>The <code>Digest::MD2</code> module allows you to use the RSA Data Security Inc. MD2 Message Digest algorithm from within Perl programs. The algorithm takes as input a message of arbitrary length and produces as output a 128-bit "fingerprint" or "message digest" of the input.</p> <p>The <code>Digest::MD2</code> programming interface is identical to the interface of <code>Digest::MD5</code>.</p> <h1 id="SEE-ALSO"><a id="SEE"></a>SEE ALSO</h1> <p><a href="/pod/Digest::MD5">Digest::MD5</a></p> <h1 id="COPYRIGHT">COPYRIGHT</h1> <p>This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.</p> <pre><code>Copyright 1998-2003 Gisle Aas. 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