Posts Tagged ‘md5’

Compute hash of a file

Computing the hash value of a file is quite strait forward. I use the routine below. It opens the file, specifies the hash-algorithm to use and returns the hash of the file. If you rather use MD5 hashes, just change hashAlgorithm into MD5CryptoServiceProvider. Public Function ComputeFileHash(ByVal fileName As String) As String   Dim hashAlgorithm As [...]

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