hashing and comparing

[john83]

in few of lines of code,

1. how can i hash a strPasswd, and

2. compare it to see if it matches a textbox value
(when user enters password, it will be compared to the hash in the db)

[dj4uk]

Try using the following method which uses the MD5 algorithm. You need to reference the System.Security.Cryptography namespace.

		public static string Encrypt(string cleanString)
		{
			Byte[] clearBytes = new UnicodeEncoding().GetBytes(cleanString);
			Byte[] hashedBytes = ((HashAlgorithm) CryptoConfig.CreateFromName("MD5")).ComputeHash(clearBytes);

			return BitConverter.ToString(hashedBytes);
		}

Basically pass in a string and it will return the hash in a string format.

HTH

DJ