I might be new here, but i am the only one giving TS what he wants. well i don't need anyone having good impression of me, except for TS. I am here to solve TS problem only, not yours.
Brian, please read post 9 of this thread and explain how the TS is going to use MD5SUM to encrypt his text file so that nobody can read it and then be able to use md5sum to un-encrypt the file so that it can be readable again.
Just read the whole first page of this entire thread. You will see that the TS is confused on what md5sum is versus encryption.