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Created March 8, 2018 09:27
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PowerShell text to MD5 hash
#converts string to MD5 hash in hyphenated and uppercase format
$someString = "test"
$md5 = new-object -TypeName System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider
$utf8 = new-object -TypeName System.Text.UTF8Encoding
$hash = [System.BitConverter]::ToString($md5.ComputeHash($utf8.GetBytes($someString)))
#to remove hyphens and downcase letters add:
$hash = $hash.ToLower() -replace '-', ''
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