Question

How do I calculate the CRC32 (Cyclic Redundancy Checksum) of a string in .NET?

Answer 1

This guy seems to have your answer.

https://damieng.com/blog/2006/08/08/calculating_crc32_in_c_and_net

And in case the blog ever goes away or breaks the url, here’s the github link:

https://github.com/damieng/DamienGKit/blob/master/CSharp/DamienG.Library/Security/Cryptography/Crc32.cs

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Usage of the Crc32 class from the blog post:

Crc32 crc32 = new Crc32(); String hash = String.Empty;  using (FileStream fs = File.Open('c:\\myfile.txt', FileMode.Open))   foreach (byte b in crc32.ComputeHash(fs)) hash += b.ToString('x2').ToLower();  Console.WriteLine('CRC-32 is {0}', hash);