Gregg Pollack wrote: > gets me: > MzI2OTQ4YzY4OWQ3MGMxYzMzYTEwZWI2Yzg5MzZiYzMzZGE2ZTJhMg== Which decodes to 326948c689d70c1c33a10eb6c8936bc33da6e2a2, which is still hex-encoded. You need to get the raw binary hash somehow... Not sure how to do that with Digest, though, and it seems undocumented at http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/digest/rdoc/classes/Digest/Base.html#M000470