Hi
I am using the follwoing method to encrypt a passowrd. But I like to decrypt
back to original string. How would i do that?

Thanks
the method i am using
Public Shared Function Encrypt(ByVal cleanString As String) As String
Dim clearBytes As [Byte]()
clearBytes = New UnicodeEncoding().GetBytes(cleanString)
Dim hashedBytes As [Byte]() =
CType(CryptoConfig.CreateFromName("MD5"),
HashAlgorithm).ComputeHash(clearBytes)
Dim hashedText As String = BitConverter.ToString(hashedBytes)
Return hashedText
End Function

Thanks so much

> Hi
> I am using the follwoing method to encrypt a passowrd. But I like to
> decrypt
> back to original string. How would i do that?


But why would you that?

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Josip Medved, MCSD
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"Al" <(E-Mail Removed)> schrieb:
> I am using the follwoing method to encrypt a passowrd.
> But I like to decrypt back to original string. How would
> i do that?
>
> Thanks
> the method i am using
> Public Shared Function Encrypt(ByVal cleanString As String) As
> String
> Dim clearBytes As [Byte]()
> clearBytes = New UnicodeEncoding().GetBytes(cleanString)
> Dim hashedBytes As [Byte]() =
> CType(CryptoConfig.CreateFromName("MD5"),
> HashAlgorithm).ComputeHash(clearBytes)
> Dim hashedText As String = BitConverter.ToString(hashedBytes)
> Return hashedText
> End Function

Your function calculates a hash value of the password. There is no way to
restore the password from this hash value.

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