Comprehensive MD5 checksum tutorial

Question

What is the most comprehensive MD5 tutorial out there? I have been trying to implement a decent MD5 checksum program but I have not come across a tutorial that makes it really clear.

Any pointers would be appreciated, Thanks.

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To clarify I would like to know how to implement it.

Answer 1

There's some explanation and pseudo-code of implementation on Wikipedia

Answer 2

Nothing easier than that. The following method will convert a given string and return the MD5 Hash of it.

public static string MD5Hash(string text)
{
System.Security.Cryptography.MD5 md5 = new System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider();
return System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(BitConverter.ToString(md5.ComputeHash(ASCIIEncoding.Default.GetBytes(text))), “-”, “”);
}