Golang - How to hash a string using MD5.

md5-example.go

import (
    "crypto/md5"
    "encoding/hex"
)

func GetMD5Hash(text string) string {
//hasher is a `io.Writer`
    hasher := md5.New()
    hasher.Write([]byte(text))
    return hex.EncodeToString(hasher.Sum(nil))
}