public static string getMd5Hash(string input)
{
// Create a new instance of the MD5CryptoServiceProvider object.
System.Security.Cryptography.MD5 md5Hasher = System.Security.Cryptography.MD5.Create();
// Convert the input string to a byte array and compute the hash.
byte[] data = md5Hasher.ComputeHash(Encoding.Default.GetBytes(input));
// Create a new Stringbuilder to collect the bytes
// and create a string.
StringBuilder sBuilder = new StringBuilder();
// Loop through each byte of the hashed data
// and format each one as a hexadecimal string.
for (int i = 0; i < data.Length; i++)
{
sBuilder.Append(data[i].ToString("x2"));
//sBuilder.Append(Convert.ToString(data[i], 2).PadLeft(8, '0')); //Convert into binary
}
// Return the hexadecimal string.
return sBuilder.ToString().ToLower();
}
}
