Hash with MD5 in VB.NET

Question

So, I got a bit of a problem here, I got a database, a login and a registration, all in different classes, now I need to hash the password in the database and read it out ag

Answer 1

   Private Function GetHash(strToHash As String) As String

    Dim md5Obj As New System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider
    Dim bytesToHash() As Byte = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(strToHash)

    bytesToHash = md5Obj.ComputeHash(bytesToHash)
    Dim strResult As New StringBuilder

    For Each b As Byte In bytesToHash
        strResult.Append(b.ToString("x2"))
    Next

    Return strResult.ToString

End Function