Nodejs crypto OpenSSL version

[shaunwarman]

Would the OpenSSL version per environment cause issues in the underlying crypto module that hash-files uses? Let's say I use hash-files to md5 a folder of files on one platform and do the same thing with the same content on another platform. Would OpenSSL differences cause a difference in the md5 hash?

[mac-]

The algorithm should be platform agnostic and should produce the same hash given that the string you are hashing is the same on each platform. With that said, the answers to this SO question may shed some light as to why the input string might be different on various platforms.

You need to make sure that all platforms are encoding the password the same way (i.e. ISO-8859-1 vs. UTF-8 vs. UTF-16 vs. UTF-8 with BOM...), and if anything's added (like the newline) it should be consistent (e.g. Windows tends to use CRLF at the end of lines, instead of just LF...).

[shaunwarman]

Thanks for the info @mac- still looking into the underlying issue.