Encrypt a string to MD5

public static string Md5Sum(string strToEncrypt) { System.Text.UTF8Encoding ue = new System.Text.UTF8Encoding(); byte[] bytes = ue.GetBytes(strToEncrypt); // encrypt bytes System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider md5 = new System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider(); byte[] hashBytes = md5.ComputeHash(bytes); // Convert the encrypted bytes back to a string (base 16) string hashString = ""; for (int i = 0; i < hashBytes.Length; i++) { hashString += System.Convert.ToString(hashBytes[i], 16).PadLeft(2, '0'); } return hashString.PadLeft(32, '0'); }