Hashing a password...

[fizzled]

All I'd like to do is create a hash of a password String to store/lookup in my users table of my database, but everything I'm reading so far makes it look a lot more complicated than it should be. Is there a simple (6 or less lines of code max) way to hash a String or is ASP.NET really that cumbersome that you need like 10+ lines of code for such a simple task?

[PlausiblyDamp]

Dim s As String = "hello world"
Dim sh As New System.Security.Cryptography.SHA512Managed
Dim b() As Byte = System.Text.UnicodeEncoding.Unicode.GetBytes(s)
b = sh.ComputeHash(b)

[HJB417]

FormsAuthentication.HashPasswordForStoringInConfigFile Method

[fizzled]

Thanks guys, that's much more like it! :)