Generating MD5 for a string

Posted Date: 16 May 2008	Resource Type: Code Snippets	Category: Encryption
Author: Payal Jain	Member Level: Gold
Rating:	Points: 10

Introduction

Following Code snippet will help u to generate MD5 hash for a string or text value

Namespaces used

namespace System.Security.Cryptography is required to be included using:

using System.Security.Cryptography;

Classes used

Md5 and MD5CryptoServiceProvider ....to create md5 hash provider

main code

//this is the full code to generate md5
Byte[] generatedBytes,originalBytes;
MD5 md5 = new MD5CryptoServiceProvider();

//convert string data to array of bytes
originalBytes = ASCIIEncoding.Default.GetBytes(txtMD5.Text);

//compute hash on generated byte array
generatedBytes = md5.ComputeHash(originalBytes);

//display hash bytes as readable string as the hash code generated will contain dash(-)
// to remove that Replace function of Regex is used here....
lblGeneratedMD5.Text = Regex.Replace(BitConverter.ToString(generatedBytes), "-", "");

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