Question

I am trying to translate some existing C++ code to C#. I have some code which calls CryptHashData 3 times on the same HCRYPTHASH. The documentation says “This function and CryptHashSessionKey can be called multiple times to compute the hash of long or discontinuous data streams.”

Which is what I want to achieve in C#. Unfortunately, MD5.ComputeHash() doesn’t appear to have a way to build on the existing hash.

Am I missing something, is there a C# API that would achieve this?

Answer 1

Instantiate an instance of the hash class and use TransformBlock and TransformFinalBlock:

byte[] part1 = //...
byte[] part2 = //...
byte[] part3 = //...
var hash = new MD5CryptoServiceProvider();
hash.TransformBlock(part1, 0, part1.Length, null, 0);
hash.TransformBlock(part2, 0, part2.Length, null, 0);
hash.TransformFinalBlock(part3, 0, part3.Length);
byte[] res = hash.Hash;