Can any body tell me about the name of default Hash Algorithm used by HashAlgorithm class

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HashAlgorithm class has a function .create() which creates an instance of the default implementation of a hash algorithm.

So all I want to know is: which hash algorithm is used as default?

Posted 1-Jun-14 10:07am

z3m

Updated 1-Jun-14 10:08am

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[no name] 1-Jun-14 16:17pm

I would probably have saved you a bit of time if you have just gone and read the documentation.

Nelek 1-Jun-14 17:00pm

OP answered you in other comment. See below

[no name] 1-Jun-14 17:30pm

Thanks.

z3m 1-Jun-14 16:26pm

Dear I have already visited and studied the msdn. It didn't helped me enough.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.security.cryptography.hashalgorithm.aspx

[no name] 1-Jun-14 17:30pm

Yes it tells you on that page as well. If you had looked at the Create method page, like you mentioned in your posting, you would have read "By default, this overload uses the SHA1CryptoServiceProvider implementation of a hash algorithm". I am not sure how much more it could have helped you.

Andreas Gieriet 1-Jun-14 18:00pm

My virtual 5!
Cheers
Andi

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 1-Jun-14 21:57pm

No, you did not. Reading the article you referenced should immediately show you what to do. Or, if you did and it did not help you, you are doing wrong thing. Instead of trying to do cryptography, you should be learning at least the basics of programming, OOP in particular. Don't waste you time doing something you don't understand.
—SA

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Keith Barrow · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-02T02:12:00

Solution 2

If you follow your original link[^], go to the "Methods" section and click "Create()" you are taken to the information about the Create method: here[^].
The page states "By default, this overload uses the SHA1CryptoServiceProvider ", so the default provider is SHA-1[^].

Posted 2-Jun-14 2:12am

Keith Barrow