MD5 conversion problem

From: Peter Afonin (pva_at_speakeasy.net)
Date: 08/27/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:37:01 -0700

Hello,

I'm struggling with the string conversion to MD5 which I've never user
before.

I have a string that I need to encode which looks approximately like this:

"pva:0.05:101214:pa7735tH:inv_desc=205308:shp_Email=petera_gudzon.net:lang
=ru:shp_PaymentNo=20040825205308:shp_UserID=pva:shp_Price=2.95:shp_HostPlan=
BU:shp_Term=2"

I'm doing it this way:

Dim hashedBytes As Byte()
Dim md5 As New MD5CryptoServiceProvider
Dim encoder As New ASCIIEncoding
hashedBytes = md5.ComputeHash(encoder.GetBytes(sCRC))
Dim sNewCRC as String = Convert.ToString(md5.ComputeHash(hashedBytes))

It doesn't work. When I see the output on the page where I pass this string,
it looks like this:

'<input type=hidden name=crc value="System.Byte[]">'+

I don't know exactly how it should look like, but probably not like
"System.Byte[]"

I'm doing something wrong, but I don't know what.

I would really appreciate your help.

Thank you,

Peter Afonin

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