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public class HashEncryption
{
/// <summary>
/// Encrypts a string using the MD5 hash encryption algorithm.
/// Message Digest is 128-bit and is commonly used to verify data, by checking
/// the 'MD5 checksum' of the data. Information on MD5 can be found at:
///
/// http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1321.html
/// </summary>
/// <param name="Data">A string containing the data to encrypt.</param>
/// <returns>A string containing the string, encrypted with the MD5 hash.</returns>
public static string MD5Hash(string Data)
{
MD5 md5 = new MD5CryptoServiceProvider();
byte[] hash = md5.ComputeHash(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(Data));
StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
foreach (byte b in hash)
{
stringBuilder.AppendFormat("{0:x2}", b);
}
return stringBuilder.ToString();
}
/// <summary>
/// Computes an MD5 hash for the provided file.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="filename">The full path to the file</param>
/// <returns>A hexadecimal encoded MD5 hash for the file.</returns>
public static string MD5FileHash(string filename)
{
using (FileStream stream = new FileStream(filename, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
{
using (MD5 md5 = new MD5CryptoServiceProvider())
{
byte[] hash = md5.ComputeHash(stream);
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
foreach (byte b in hash)
{
builder.AppendFormat("{0:x2}", b);
}
return builder.ToString();
}
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Encrypts a string using the SHA256 (Secure Hash Algorithm) algorithm.
/// Details: http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/fip180-1.htm
/// This works in the same manner as MD5, providing however 256bit encryption.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="Data">A string containing the data to encrypt.</param>
/// <returns>A string containing the string, encrypted with the SHA256 algorithm.</returns>
public static string SHA256Hash(string Data)
{
SHA256 sha = new SHA256Managed();
byte[] hash = sha.ComputeHash(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(Data));
StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
foreach (byte b in hash)
{
stringBuilder.AppendFormat("{0:x2}", b);
}
return stringBuilder.ToString();
}
/// <summary>
/// Encrypts a string using the SHA384(Secure Hash Algorithm) algorithm.
/// This works in the same manner as MD5, providing 384bit encryption.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="Data">A string containing the data to encrypt.</param>
/// <returns>A string containing the string, encrypted with the SHA384 algorithm.</returns>
public static string SHA384Hash(string Data)
{
SHA384 sha = new SHA384Managed();
byte[] hash = sha.ComputeHash(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(Data));
StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
foreach (byte b in hash)
{
stringBuilder.AppendFormat("{0:x2}", b);
}
return stringBuilder.ToString();
}
/// <summary>
/// Encrypts a string using the SHA512 (Secure Hash Algorithm) algorithm.
/// This works in the same manner as MD5, providing 512bit encryption.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="Data">A string containing the data to encrypt.</param>
/// <returns>A string containing the string, encrypted with the SHA512 algorithm.</returns>
public static string SHA512Hash(string Data)
{
SHA512 sha = new SHA512Managed();
byte[] hash = sha.ComputeHash(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(Data));
StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
foreach (byte b in hash)
{
stringBuilder.AppendFormat("{0:x2}", b);
}
return stringBuilder.ToString();
}
}
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