Converting a md5 hash byte array to a string

Question

How can I convert the hashed result, which is a byte array, to a string?

byte[] bytePassword = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(password);

using (MD5 md5 = MD5.Create())
         


        

Answer 1

For anyone interested a Nuget package I created called CryptoStringify allows you to convert a string to a hashed string using a nice clean syntax, without having to play around with byte arrays:

using (MD5 md5 = MD5.Create())
{
    string strHashedPassword = md5.Hash(password);
}

It's an extension method on HashAlgorithm and KeyedHashAlgorithm so works on SHA1, HMACSHA1, SHA256 etc too.

https://www.nuget.org/packages/cryptostringify