static public string GetMd5Sum(string str)
{
// First we need to convert the string into bytes, which
// means using a text encoder.
Encoder enc = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetEncoder();
// Create a buffer large enough to hold the string
byte[] unicodeText = new byte[str.Length * 2];
enc.GetBytes(str.ToCharArray(), 0, str.Length, unicodeText, 0, true);
// Now that we have a byte array we can ask the CSP to hash it
MD5 md5 = new MD5CryptoServiceProvider();
byte[] result = md5.ComputeHash(unicodeText);
// Build the final string by converting each byte
// into hex and appending it to a StringBuilder
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for (int i=0;i<result.Length;i++)
{
sb.Append(result[i].ToString("X2"));
}
// And return it
return sb.ToString();
}