Python MD5 Cracker "TypeError: object supporting the buffer API required"

Question

My code looks as follows:

md = input("MD5 Hash: ")
if len(md) != 32:
    print("Don't MD5 Hash.")
else:
    liste = input("Wordlist: ")
    ac = open(liste).readlines()
    for new in ac:
        new = new.split()
        hs = hashlib.md5(new).hexdigest()
        if hs == md:
            print("MD5 HASH CRACKED : ",new)
        else:
            print("Sorry :( Don't Cracked.")

But, I get this error when I run it:

    hs = hashlib.md5(new).hexdigest()
TypeError: object supporting the buffer API required

How do I solve this? "b" bytes?

Dimitris Fasarakis Hilliard · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-04 12:31:53Z

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Whatever the case, by calling split() on new you create a list object and not an str; lists do not support the Buffer API. Maybe you were looking for strip() in order to remove any trailing/leading white space?

Either way, the resulting str from new.strip() (or split() if you select an element of the resulting list) should be encoded since unicode objects must be encoded before feeding it to a hashing algorithms' initializer.

new = new.strip() # or new.split()[index]
hs = hashlib.md5(new.encode()).hexdigest()

edited Jul 4, 2016 at 12:31

answered Jul 3, 2016 at 23:36

Dimitris Fasarakis Hilliard

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2 Comments

Ahmet Over a year ago

'new=new.strip()' to delete these space but don't working why?

rocksteady Over a year ago

If you're working with Pandas, having null (NaN) values can cause this error too, so you may need to handle those values before you run them through.

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