--- title: md5 linktitle: md5 description: hashes the given input and returns its MD5 checksum. godocref: date: 2017-02-01 publishdate: 2017-02-01 lastmod: 2017-02-01 categories: [functions] menu: docs: parent: "functions" keywords: [] signature: ["md5 INPUT"] workson: [] hugoversion: relatedfuncs: [sha] deprecated: false aliases: [] --- ``` {{ md5 "Hello world, gophers!" }} ``` This can be useful if you want to use [Gravatar](https://en.gravatar.com/) for generating a unique avatar: ``` ```