What is the length of the MD5 hash?

You generate MD5 128-bit hash on all files and folders on your computer to keep a baseline check for security reasons?

What is the length of the MD5 hash?

You generate MD5 128-bit hash on all files and folders on your computer to keep a baseline check for security reasons?

What is the length of the MD5 hash?

A.
32 bit

B.
64 byte

C.
48 char

D.
128 kb



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leo

leo

none of this is correct.

MD5 = 128 bits/16 bytes

hex encoded: 32 characters

Me

Me

agreed, should be 32 chars (length)

hannah

hannah

correction:

MD5 is 128 bit which is 16 Byte. Notice there are 4 files. Hence 16×4=64 byte. So the correct answer is B.

Eddie Guerrero

Eddie Guerrero

I think your first answer was correct, not the second. An md5 hash is a hex md5 hash on these windows files, 32 character for the hexadecimal representation, as their picture shows (4 bits per character = 128bits). They don’t have that answer! Even if you try to use programming encoding, the answer is still not going to be here! When I’m programming trying to get a digest, the math works like 128bit means 16bytes (binary), 32 bytes (hex) and 22 (base64), none of those answers could be used for lengths.

The example shows you 4 files, true, but only because he’s showing you that only the last 2 files were “good” in status, as an example of WHY you’d compare a file versus its hash.

chino

chino

very confusing. now i’m not sure which of one is the answer. Can someone tell me how accurate is this exam? I am trying to take the exam soon and I’ve seen a lot of confusing answers already. any suggestions on what other testprep to study?

Somp

Somp

Another view of the screenshot:

The program says, that you can drop a md5-sum file for processing. The screenshot lists one such file. So, if we assume, that we don’t want that but only the other three files, we would come to those 48 chars :).

Sam

Sam

I think Somp’s answer is correct.
The 128 bit length doesn’t change with the file size. We also do not include the length of the loaded (.md5) file.
Thus having 3 files >> 3*128 bit= 384 bits
384/8=48 Char.

Candy

Candy

Option D.
The length of the hash value is determined by the type of the used algorithm, and its length does not depend on the size of the file. The most common hash value lengths are either 128 or 160 bits.

ibraheem

ibraheem

first answer was correct

A.
32 bit

An MD5 hash is typically expressed as a hexadecimal number, 32 digits long

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