[SOLVED] How do I calculate the md5 checksum of a string in starbasic macro (openoffice macro)?

How do I calculate the md5 checksum of a string in starbasic macro (openoffice macro)?

I am trying to make an OpenOfficeWriter StarBasic-Macro Program, that turns wiki source code to Open office Writer. I need a starbasic macro, that generates the MD5 checksum. There is a MD5Thumbprint in the Documentation for OpenOffice, so I suppose you can compute the MD5 in a Open Office starbasic macro using some kind of macro code. This is what I'm looking for.

I suppose I have to use the XCertificate Interface in the security module, but I don't know how the macro code should be. So I need a Open Office starbasic macro command or code like: stringMD5=s.md5(), where will be a string (for example something like "Douglas C-47 Skytrain.jpg") and stringMD5 should be a string or something that I can make to a string (in this example the outcome in the end should be the string "40decfb5f1be8bca1e56c8a853027941", which is the MD5 for the String "Douglas C-47 Skytrain.jpg").

I would like to avoid using Python (see:How to get MD5 sum of a string?) and create a starbasic macro instead. If somebody has a tip, I will be of course very glad. George

Solution

The cryptographic extension seems to do what you want. However it may not work in recent versions of OpenOffice.

Otherwise, write the macro in a language such as Python or Java that can compute MD5 using a library.