How to generate HMAC-SHA256 in .Net Core?

Question

I am using this page to generate some test HMAC-SHA256 hashes for some texts:

https://www.liavaag.org/English/SHA-Generator/HMAC/

However, when I try to use the

Answer 1

Using the following approach:

public static String GetHash(String text, String key)
{
    // change according to your needs, an UTF8Encoding
    // could be more suitable in certain situations
    ASCIIEncoding encoding = new ASCIIEncoding();

    Byte[] textBytes = encoding.GetBytes(text);
    Byte[] keyBytes = encoding.GetBytes(key);

    Byte[] hashBytes;

    using (HMACSHA256 hash = new HMACSHA256(keyBytes))
        hashBytes = hash.ComputeHash(textBytes);

    return BitConverter.ToString(hashBytes).Replace("-", "").ToLower();
}

you will get the same result as the site you provided:

Console.WriteLine(GetHash("qwerty","123456"));
// 3364ad93c083dc76d7976b875912442615cc6f7e3ce727b2316173800ca32b3a

Proof:

Actually, the code you are using, which is based on this tutorial and on KeyDerivation.Pbkdf2, is producing different results because it uses a much more complex parametrization and another encoding. But despite the results being different, you should REALLY use the approach provided by the example, and stick on the UTF8 encoding.