How do I generate a hashcode from a byte array in C#?

Question

Say I have an object that stores a byte array and I want to be able to efficiently generate a hashcode for it. I\'ve used the cryptographic hash functions for this in the pa

Answer 1

Have you compared with the SHA1CryptoServiceProvider.ComputeHash method? It takes a byte array and returns a SHA1 hash, and I believe it's pretty well optimized. I used it in an Identicon Handler that performed pretty well under load.