The Reluctant Blogger

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; using System.Security.Cryptography; namespace SomeRandomNamespace { class Utils { public static string md5(string strToHash) { MD5CryptoServiceProvider crypt = new MD5CryptoServiceProvider(); byte[] bytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(strToHash); bytes = crypt.ComputeHash(bytes); System.Text.StringBuilder sb = new System.Text.StringBuilder(); foreach (byte b in bytes) { sb.Append(b.ToString(“x2″).ToLower()); } return sb.ToString(); } } }

One of the applications I am working on uses Amazon Simple Storage Solution as its storage architecture for potentially billions of files. Because I am working on a widely distributed client application that can not contain our private S3 key, I have a web service on my own server set up that will create Query [...]