Digests the given string using the MD5 algorithm. - CSharp System.Security.Cryptography

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Description

Digests the given string using the MD5 algorithm.

Demo Code

// MailSystem.NET is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

public class Main{
        /// <summary>
      /// Digests the given string using the MD5 algorithm.
      /// </summary>
      /// <param name="data">The data to be digested.</param>
      /// <remarks>This method is used for APOP authentication.</remarks>
      /// <returns>A 16 bytes digest representing the data.</returns>
      /// <example>
      /// The example below illustrates the use of this method.
      /// //from  w  w w .  ja  v a2  s  .c o  m
      /// <code>
      /// C#
      /// 
      /// string data = "ActiveMail rocks ! Let's see how this string is digested...";
      /// string digest = Crypto.MD5Digest(data);
      /// </code>
      /// 
      /// digest returns 3ff3501885f8602c4d8bf7edcd2ceca1
      /// 
      /// Digesting is used to check data equivalence.
      /// Different data result in different digests.
      /// </example>
      public static string MD5Digest(string data)
      {
         System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider md5 = new System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider();
         byte[] bufe = md5.ComputeHash(System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(data));
         return System.BitConverter.ToString(bufe).ToLower().Replace("-","");
      }
}

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