github.com/hugorut/terraform@v1.1.3/website/docs/language/functions/md5.mdx (about) 1 --- 2 page_title: md5 - Functions - Configuration Language 3 description: |- 4 The md5 function computes the MD5 hash of a given string and encodes it 5 with hexadecimal digits. 6 --- 7 8 # `md5` Function 9 10 `md5` computes the MD5 hash of a given string and encodes it with 11 hexadecimal digits. 12 13 The given string is first encoded as UTF-8 and then the MD5 algorithm is applied 14 as defined in [RFC 1321](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1321). The raw hash is 15 then encoded to lowercase hexadecimal digits before returning. 16 17 Before using this function for anything security-sensitive, refer to 18 [RFC 6151](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6151) for updated security 19 considerations applying to the MD5 algorithm. 20 21 ## Examples 22 23 ``` 24 > md5("hello world") 25 5eb63bbbe01eeed093cb22bb8f5acdc3 26 ``` 27 28 ## Related Functions 29 30 * [`filemd5`](/language/functions/filemd5) calculates the same hash from 31 the contents of a file rather than from a string value.