Calculate a MD5 hash from a string

Question

I use the following C# code to calculate a MD5 hash from a string. It works well and generates a 32-character hex string like this: 900150983cd24fb0d6963f7d28e17f72

Answer 1

A faster alternative of existing answer for .NET Core 2.1 and higher:

public static string CreateMD5(string s)
{
    using (System.Security.Cryptography.MD5 md5 = System.Security.Cryptography.MD5.Create())
    {
        var encoding = Encoding.ASCII;
        var data = encoding.GetBytes(s);

        Span hashBytes = stackalloc byte[16];
        md5.TryComputeHash(data, hashBytes, out int written);
        if(written != hashBytes.Length)
            throw new OverflowException();


        Span stringBuffer = stackalloc char[32];
        for (int i = 0; i < hashBytes.Length; i++)
        {
            hashBytes[i].TryFormat(stringBuffer.Slice(2 * i), out _, "x2");
        }
        return new string(stringBuffer);
    }
}

You can optimize it even more if you are sure that your strings are small enough and replace encoding.GetBytes by unsafe int GetBytes(ReadOnlySpan chars, Span bytes) alternative.