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Hello I have somewhat of a problem. I am trying to execute a MD5 hashing algorithm for a given file but all I have is the directory as a string.

for example I have this as my string..
C:\Users\Subfolder\file.exe

How can I use the string to locate the file to then calculate the md5 hash of the file and not just the md5 calculation of the string?

thank you in advance!
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VB
Imports System.Security.Cryptography
Imports System.Text
Imports System.IO

Public Function MD5FileHash(ByVal sFile As String) As String
    Dim MD5 As New MD5CryptoServiceProvider
    Dim Hash As Byte()
    Dim Result As String = ""
    Dim Tmp As String = ""

    Dim FN As New FileStream(sFile, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read, 8192)
    MD5.ComputeHash(FN)
    FN.Close()

    Hash = MD5.Hash
    Result = Strings.Replace(BitConverter.ToString(Hash), "-", ""
    Return Result
End Function


should do the trick ^^
 
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Draco2013 28-Aug-13 4:47am    
this along with other examples I have found do not return the correct hash of the file. I am testing with the eicar text file witch has a hash of 44D88612FEA8A8F36DE82E1278ABB02F but with your example I get E37D3A9FF32C946E7A3934E8E7DC6345 which I suspect to be the hash of the string of the filename and not the file itself. any help would be greatly appreciated

thank you cheers!
David Goebet 28-Aug-13 5:44am    
if i put a test.pdf in three different locations and let this code run (MD5CryptoServiceProvider("Path\to\my\file.txt")

i get three times the same hash (with three different locations(over 3 Harddrives)
and the other file has another hash so i think its not to wrong
Draco2013 28-Aug-13 4:50am    
the fullpath and the file name are being passed as a string and not within the fileinfo class is this possible?..

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