How to encrypt string uisng MD5 algorithm with checksum

I will be showing a simple code that can be used to encrypt a text to its MD5 hash.

Code Block :

public string CalculateMD5Hash(string input)

{

// To calculate MD5 hash from an input string

MD5 md5 = System.Security.Cryptography.MD5.Create();

byte[] inputBytes = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(input);

byte[] hash = md5.ComputeHash(inputBytes);

// convert byte array to hex string

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

for (int i = 0; i < hash.Length; i++)

{

//to make hex string use lower case instead of uppercase add parameter “X2”

sb.Append(hash[i].ToString(“X2”));

}

return sb.ToString();

}

For Example if you pass a string to the Method like

String hashResult = CalculateMMD5Hash(“abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz”);

The returning string will be : C3FCD3D76192E4007DFB496CCA67E13B.

This was a simple code block that would help in creating an MD5 hash resulting string in C#.