[7umper]

Hi! all.
I need to make a login form with an encrytped data(user or pass), so I google for many time and found a fucntion.
But the problem is I dont understand the algorithm of each statement. Could you all explain to me?

    Private Function StringtoMD5(ByVal Content As String) As String
        Dim M5 As New System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider
        Dim ByteString() As Byte = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(Content)
        ByteString = M5.ComputeHash(ByteString)
        Dim FinalString As String = Nothing
        For Each bt As Byte In ByteString
            FinalString &= bt.ToString("x2")
        Next
        Return FinalString.ToUpper()
    End Function

New programmer
7umper (Nuii)

[modi123_1]

Read it out loud.

line 2 - variable m4 is a MD5CryptoServiceProvider
line 3 - variable ByteString is a byte array that is filled with the variable 'Content' 's value converted to an array of bytes.
Line 4 - byte array 'ByteString' gets the hash of itself.
Line 5 - create an empty string called 'finalstring'.
Line 6 - for each byte in the byte array 'ByteString'
Line 7 - concatenate 'finalstring' the current byte after being string formatted X2 (a hexadecimal format)
Line 8 - go to the next byte
Line 9 - return the variable 'finalstring' in upper case.

http://msdn.microsof...v=vs.95%29.aspx
http://msdn.microsof...ding.ascii.aspx
http://msdn.microsof...ceprovider.aspx

[7umper]

modi123_1, on 08 December 2012 - 10:39 AM, said:

Read it out loud.

line 2 - variable m4 is a MD5CryptoServiceProvider
line 3 - variable ByteString is a byte array that is filled with the variable 'Content' 's value converted to an array of bytes.
Line 4 - byte array 'ByteString' gets the hash of itself.
Line 5 - create an empty string called 'finalstring'.
Line 6 - for each byte in the byte array 'ByteString'
Line 7 - concatenate 'finalstring' the current byte after being string formatted X2 (a hexadecimal format)
Line 8 - go to the next byte
Line 9 - return the variable 'finalstring' in upper case.

http://msdn.microsof...v=vs.95%29.aspx
http://msdn.microsof...ding.ascii.aspx
http://msdn.microsof...ceprovider.aspx

Thanks modi123_1. I just want to understand deeply before I code a program.