>It appears I will need to use the MD5 16 bytes calculation faster than expected. We just got a new option we have to do and we will verify for duplicates. If anyone has already the code for calculating a MD5 into a character 16 field in VB.NET that would like to share, feel free to post a reply.
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I may be misunderstanding but wouldn't byte[16] need char(32) ?