using System;
 
public string CreateMD5Hash (string input)
{
   // Use input string to calculate MD5 hash
   MD5 md5 = System.Security.Cryptography.MD5.Create();
   byte[] inputBytes = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes (input);
   byte[] hashBytes  = md5.ComputeHash (inputBytes);
 
   // Convert the byte array to hexadecimal string
   StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
   for (int i = 0; i < hashBytes.Length; i++)
   {
       sb.Append (hashBytes[i].ToString ("X2"));
       // To force the hex string to lower-case letters instead of
       // upper-case, use he following line instead:
       // sb.Append(hashBytes[i].ToString("x2")); 
   }
   return sb.ToString();
}


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