RE: MS Crypto API and Sun's JCE producing different MD5 MAC Results.

From: Emile Deen (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/04/04 

Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 01:41:03 -0700

Try reversing the bytes. I ran into a similar thing with signatures (encryption of a hash) between Win32 & Java.

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