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How can I compute MD5 in a Metro Style app that is written in C#?
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Each MD5 hash looks like 32 numbers and letters, but each digit is in hexadecimal and represents four bits. Since a single character represents eight bits (to form a byte), the total bit count of an MD5 hash is 128 bits. Two hexadecimal characters form a byte, so 32 hexadecimal characters equal 16 bytes.
The MD5 hash function was originally designed for use as a secure cryptographic hash algorithm for authenticating digital signatures. But MD5 has been deprecated for uses other than as a noncryptographic checksum to verify data integrity and detect unintentional data corruption.
MD5 (Message-Digest algorithm 5) is a widely used cryptographic hash function that results in a 128-bit hash value. The 128-bit (16-byte) MD5 hashes (also termed message digests) typically are represented as 32-digit hexadecimal numbers (for example, ec55d3e698d289f2afd663725127bace).
MD5 (Message Digest Method 5) is a cryptographic hash algorithm used to generate a 128-bit digest from a string of any length. It represents the digests as 32 digit hexadecimal numbers. Ronald Rivest designed this algorithm in 1991 to provide the means for digital signature verification.
There is lots of information on the locations of various namespaces for Metro at the Metro style app reference.
I'm not sure about MD5, but the the hashing stuff for SHA is in Windows.Security.Cryptography.Certificates
Obviously we don't know if you really need MD5, but if you don't (i.e. you're not talking to something else that expects MD5) then don't - it's often the go-to hashing for people just because it's more famous, but others are often better for all sorts of reasons.
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