Hi. I'm working on a project in which I need to use MD5 cryptography. The requirements are vague, but I need to do both: compute the MD5 hash of a string and perform the MD5Crypt function on the string. I know that class MD5CryptoServiceProvider provides the ComputeHash() function (for the first part). However, I don't think it provides an MD5Crypt function. Actually, I have no idea what the MD5Crypt function is. From what I know MD5 is a hashing algorithm, so am I looking for a MD5 cryptography algorithm I don't think one exists (not under this name).
All I know about the MD5Crypt function is that it is a popular UNIX and BSD function.
Thanks,
Tib
MD5Crypt in .net
Kryten
As of MD5 algorithm, its already implemented in .NET Framework and is ready to be used.
All you will need to do is,
System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider md5 = new System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider();
string hash =BitConverter.ToString((md5.ComputeHash( System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.Default.GetBytes(stringtohash) ) ));
Good Luck.
amerigo5
Thanks for the reply.
Actually, what I'm looking is for the UNIX MD5crypt method, which is not implemented in the FCL. There's specs, so I'll write my own.