An MD5 hash consists of 16 bytes, but they are not all printable characters.
- The ETag is the md5 hash, hex-encoded (not base64, as the question suggests) — hex encoding uses 32 characters to encode 16 bytes.
- Meanwhile, Content-MD5 is the md5 hash, base64 encoded, which uses 24 characters to encode 16 bytes.
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