Question

I’m looking for one line code examples in various languages for getting a valid MD5 result (as a string, not a bytehash or what have you). For instance:

PHP: $token = md5($var1 . $var2);

I found VB especially troublesome to do in one line.

Answer 1

C#:

string hash = System.Web.Security.FormsAuthentication.HashPasswordForStoringInConfigFile(input, 'md5'); 

VB is virtually the same.

Here it is not using the System.Web namespace:

string hash = Convert.ToBase64String(new System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider().ComputeHash(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(input))); 

Or in readable form:

string hash =      Convert.ToBase64String      (new System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider()           .ComputeHash               (System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes                   (input)               )      );