MD5 in MATLAB

An MD5 C-mex function for MATLAB. It takes less than 1 minute for a 700MB file size.
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Updated 14 Jul 2005

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This MATLAB version MD5 is for checksum of files and strings. The speed is very fast. A timer shows time taken to finish the process in seconds.

Just type: mMD5('filename') for a file or mMD5('string') for a string, eg., mMD5('abcd').

Reference: Tian-tai Huynh, MD5 in C

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Steven Huang (2024). MD5 in MATLAB (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/7919-md5-in-matlab), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

MATLAB Release Compatibility
Created with R13
Compatible with any release
Platform Compatibility
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Version Published Release Notes
1.0.0.0

That is a good point to have the MD5 sum output stored in a string. The file has been updated. To use this function, just do:
% for a file:
a = mMD5('contents.m')
or
% for a string:
a = mMD5('abcd')
the MD5 sum now is saved in variable a.