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Convert Plain Text to MD5 Hash
By Brian Pautsch – 11/20/2007 10:08:32 PM. Posted to Code Snippets.

Nothing groundbreaking here, but if you need to know how to convert plain text to an MD5 Hash, here you go:

1using System;
2using System.Security.Cryptography;
3using System.Text;
4
5public static string ConvertToMD5(string plainText)
6{
7    byte[] input = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(plainText);
8    byte[] output = MD5.Create().ComputeHash(input);
9    return Convert.ToBase64String(output).Trim();
10}