How to encrypt a string using c#

Posted Date: 30 Apr 2008	Resource Type: Code Snippets	Category: Encryption
Author: narasimha	Member Level: Gold
Rating:	Points: 15

The following cose sample shows how to encrypt a string using c#
private string encryptString(string strToEncrypt)
{
System.Text.UTF8Encoding ue = new System.Text.UTF8Encoding();
byte[] bytes = ue.GetBytes(strToEncrypt);

// encrypt bytes
System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvi der md5 = new System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvi der();
byte[] hashBytes = md5.ComputeHash(bytes);

// Convert the encrypted bytes back to a string (base 16)
string hashString = "";

for(int i=0;i{
hashString += Convert.ToString(hashBytes[i],16).PadLeft(2,'0');
}

return hashString.PadLeft(32,'0');
}

Responses

Author: Kapil Dhawan 17 Jun 2008

Member Level: Gold Points : 2

Hello
Nice piece of code
Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.
I hope to see more good code from your side
This code will help lots of guys
Thanks to you
Regards,
Kapil

Author: Jelte Verbree 19 Sep 2008

Member Level: Bronze Points : 2

Hi,

Great code it was very useful to me, but I think that here is missing something in this code

for(int i=0;i
{
hashString += Convert.ToString(hashBytes[i],16).PadLeft(2,'0');
}

return hashString.PadLeft(32,'0');
}

does it have to be something like this?

for(int i=0; ...missing... ; i++)
{
code
}

Correct me if i'm wrong ;)

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