(Visual Basic 6.0) MD5 Hash a String (such as a password string)

Demonstrates how to MD5 hash a string to get MD5 hash in hex encoded string representation. (The MD5 hash is 16 bytes, and therefore a hex encoded MD5 hash would be 32 chars.)

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Dim password As String
password = "myPassword"

Dim crypt As New ChilkatCrypt2
crypt.HashAlgorithm = "md5"
crypt.EncodingMode = "hex"
Dim md5Hex As String
md5Hex = crypt.HashStringENC(password)
Debug.Print "MD5 hash (as a hex string) = " & md5Hex

' The hex string will be uppercase.  Your application
' can easily convert it to lowercase if desired via non-Chilkat means.