/*

  * $Source$

  * $Revision$

  *

  * Copyright (C) 2000 Tim Joyce

  *

  * Part of Melati (http://melati.org), a framework for the rapid

  * development of clean, maintainable web applications.

  *

  * Melati is free software; Permission is granted to copy, distribute

  * and/or modify this software under the terms either:

  *

  * a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software

  *    Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)

  *    any later version,

  *

  *    or

  *

  * b) any version of the Melati Software License, as published

  *    at http://melati.org

  *

  * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License and

  * the Melati Software License along with this program;

  * if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,

  * 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA to obtain the

  * GNU General Public License and visit http://melati.org to obtain the

  * Melati Software License.

  *

  * Feel free to contact the Developers of Melati (http://melati.org),

  * if you would like to work out a different arrangement than the options

  * outlined here.  It is our intention to allow Melati to be used by as

  * wide an audience as possible.

  *

  * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

  * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

  * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

  * GNU General Public License for more details.

  *

  * Contact details for copyright holder:

  *

  *     Tim Joyce <timj At paneris.org>

  *     http://paneris.org/

  *     68 Sandbanks Rd, Poole, Dorset. BH14 8BY. UK

  */

 package org.melati.util;

 import java.security.MessageDigest;

 import org.melati.Melati;

 /**

  * MD5 - utils for encoding using MD5.

  */

 public final class MD5Util {

   private MD5Util() {

   }

   /**

    * Encode a String.

    * 

    * @param in

    *        the String to encode

    * @return the encoded String

    */

   public static String encode(String in) {

     try {

       MessageDigest md = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");

       byte[] digest = md.digest(in.getBytes(Melati.DEFAULT_ENCODING));

       return new String(digest, Melati.DEFAULT_ENCODING);

     } catch (Exception e) {

       throw new MelatiBugMelatiException(

           "For some reason I couldn't encode the password!",

           e);

     }

   }

 }