title: Comparing MD5 strings
body: <p>I have a java code where I am sending an md5 has over the socket to receive on the other side. I take in a password as the input and create its own md5 to check with the md5 recieved over the socket to authenticate.</p>
  
  <p>Both the md5 strings have the same byte pattern, but the String.equals() returns a false when I do an equality test on both the md5 patterns. How can this be possible ?. Please help if anyone has an idea of what might be wrong ?</p>