Hashing a string into a Guid

gistfile1.cs

// using System.Security.Cryptography

var str = “William Holroyd”;

var byt = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(str);
var hash = MD5.Create().ComputeHash(byt);
var guid = new Guid(hash);

// guid will always have a value of "ead7ab16-6d5b-0fa0-73b7-9fe85b675f83"
// for the input of “William Holroyd” provided above. This value will always 
// be produced no matter what machine the code is executed on.