Missing mhash

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I am trying to work on a machine without mhash. I don't have root access to the machine.

Is there an alternative function to mhash? Here's what I need to replace:

function hmac($key, $data)
{
return (binhex (mhash (MHASH_MD5, $data, $key)));
}

Which appears to encrypt a password before inserting it.

Thanks all.

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Surely somebody has a hand rolled MD5 or hmac or mhash function or some combination of the three?

[Sxooter]

If you're on a linux box, you should have a simple cli program on it called md5sum, just call it with backticks...