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MD5 Hash a String (such as a password string)

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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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VBScript
Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

password = "myPassword"

set crypt = CreateObject("Chilkat.Crypt2")
crypt.HashAlgorithm = "md5"
crypt.EncodingMode = "hex"
md5Hex = crypt.HashStringENC(password)
outFile.WriteLine("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.

outFile.Close