Generating hash value

From: Eliyahu Goldin (removemeegoldin_at_monarchmed.com)
Date: 12/28/03

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    Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 17:14:52 +0200

    Following Microsoft recommendations, I'd like to store a one-way passport
    hash of a user's password. .NET provides method
    FormsAuthentication.HashPasswordForStoringinConfigFile (...) to generate a
    hash value with either SHA1 or MD5 algorithm. My problem is that the
    password is to be generated on a workstation with no .NET installed. How can
    I generate a hash value without .NET in the same way as
    HashPasswordForStoringinConfigFile does? Is there any sequence of Windows
    Crypto API calls with the same effect? An external stored procedure on the
    server side?

    Eliyahu

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