Using MD5CryptoServiceProvider

[amir100]

Hi everyone,

 

Greetings from me to all of you. I'm a newbie here :D . Well anyway, I need to ask something.

 

I am trying to encrypt a password. I am using the MD5CryptoServiceProvider Class (Any other suggestions???). To compute the hash code, that class has a method called ComputeHash. This method accepts an array of Bytes as its

argument.

 

So ... the password were given in type String. I've look in the documentation, but I can't find anything about converting a String to an array of Bytes. So ... I can't continue my work. Up to this point, that's the last thing I need to do to finish my work. Please help. Thanks.

 

-amir

[PlausiblyDamp]

Something like the following any use

         Dim md As New System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider
 
         Dim input As String = "Test String"
         Dim result() As Byte = md.ComputeHash(System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(input))
 

[DR00ME]

Dim MyString As String = "yadda yadda yaa"

Dim MyByteArray() As Byte

Dim MyEncoding As New System.Text.ASCIIEncoding

 

MyByteArray = MyEncoding.GetBytes(MyString)

[amir100]

Thanks to DR00ME and PlausiblyDamp.

 

You know, below is my code ...

 

             '===Hashing current password
             For Each character As Char In tmpPass
                  currPass(0) = System.Convert.ToByte(character)
                  cryptedPass = Me.crypter.ComputeHash(currPass)
                  currentPass = currentPass & cryptedPass(0).ToString
             Next
             '===  

 

I actually convert one character by one character in the input String to Byte and then I hash that character. It's kind a straight forward isn't it. :D

 

Well anyway, thanks again. :)