Handlebars Helper Function: md5

Converts a string to a 128-bit hexadecimal MD5 hash.

This helper is available in the Winter ’27 release of Marketing Cloud Next.

1{{md5 STRING_TO_CONVERT charset=CHARSET}}

The function returns the 128-bit MD5 hash as a hexadecimal string.

This example hashes a string of text so that the plain-text value isn’t stored or transmitted directly.

1{{md5 "This is a string of text."}}

The function returns this MD5 hash:

17ccb47715d465a9e6a2b7d3c0441da80

This example hashes the same string, but specifies UTF-16 encoding.

1{{md5 "This is a string of text." charset="UTF-16"}}

Because the character encoding changes the bytes that are hashed, the function returns a different hash:

13251ab3b9d54f085f6b57aa3bc134c3c