Please Help - Encryption Problems

From: Jamie Sutherland (jamie.sutherland_at_nhcscotland.no.spam.com)
Date: 04/23/04 

Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:45:38 +0100

Hi,
I have a problem in that I have 2 applications writing to the same Database.
One App is web based and the other is windows/forms based.
Both have the same job in that they can reset a users password in the
database. Both are using SHA1 encryption however they both ghive different
results when the programs are run.
If I run the windows exe file and set the password to password the exe
encrypts as follows: 5BAA61E4C9B93F3F68225B6CF8331B7EE68FD8

If I run the web based version with the word password I get the following:
5BAA61E4C9B93F3F0682250B6CF8331B7EE68FD8

Notice the web version has extra in it.
Please help..... Below is the code I have been using for both versions:

Web Version:
Dim PwdAs String = "password"
Dim hashedPwd As String =
FormsAuthentication.HashPasswordForStoringInConfigFile(Pwd, "SHA1")
Return hashedPwd

Windows Exe Version:
Dim PwdAs String = Trim("password")
Dim Data As Byte()
Data = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(Pwd)
Dim shaM As New SHA1Managed
Dim resultHash As Byte() = shaM.ComputeHash(Data)
Dim hashedpwd = ""
Dim b As Byte
For Each b In resultHash
hashedpwd += Hex(b)
Next
Return hashedpwd

Thanks
Jamie

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