MD5SUM FOR C#

Reason For This Howto

As you may know the MD5CryptoService, which the .NET Framework uses, doesn't create an md5 sum's string. So you only have the pure byte[] which isn't that useful if you want to use it in a database or on your Web Server to compare the sum with your file's sum! So, if many people have no idea how to get their sum into the right way, here's my howto to create the same sums like "md5sum" does:

Code

This is the second version with the Hex-bug fixed.

using System.Security.Cryptography;
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string MD5SUM(byte[] FileOrText) //Output: String<-> Input: Byte[] //
{
return BitConverter.ToString(new 
    MD5CryptoServiceProvider().ComputeHash(FileOrText)).Replace("-","").ToLower();
} 

// Quite simple isn't it? I hope you enjoyed this tiny article and 
//I hope I could help ya! //

You can use this example of course for SHA1 as well, just change the MD5CryptoServiceProvider to SHA1CryptoServiceProvider.