MD5 Hashing in Java

This is useful for storing passwords in a database though still vulnerable to md5 dictionary attacks, anyway, here’s a static method.

public static String hash(String text) {
        String hashedString = "";
        try {
                MessageDigest md5Hash = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
                md5Hash.update(text.getBytes(), 0, text.length());
                hashedString = new BigInteger(1, md5Hash.digest()).toString(16);
        }  catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException exception) {
                exception.printStackTrace();
        }
        return hashedString;
}

This will return the MD5 hash. Have a great day!