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jags_sonawane on 02/13/08


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Encryption of string

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  1. public static byte[] encryptData(string data)
  2.     {
  3.         System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider md5Hasher = new System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider();
  4.         byte[] hashedBytes;
  5.         System.Text.UTF8Encoding encoder = new System.Text.UTF8Encoding();
  6.         hashedBytes = md5Hasher.ComputeHash(encoder.GetBytes(data));
  7.         return hashedBytes;
  8.     }

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Posted By: AndrewVos on April 16, 2008

This is hashing not encryption. There's no way to get the string back.

You could use: System.Web.Security.FormsAuthentication.HashPasswordForStoringInConfigFile(password,"md5") if you just want to hash a password.

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