Hi Sergey,

Like I said I don't have foxcrypto, so I don't know what it returns. I was just going by what he posted and unless there were hidden characters (which is probably likely now that I think about it), his string only showed 9 characters.

Alan

>Alan,
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>I don't know where you get an idea that string is 9 characters (bytes) long because MD5 funcrtion of foxcrypto.dll returns 16 bytes MD5 binary hash value.
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>>I think maybe I missed something then. I thought the original question contained the binary hash string, and it was only 9 characters. Your transforms would not return 128 bits on that basis.
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>>Maybe I'm misunderstanding the MD5 hash althogether, but I thought it had to return 128 bits regardless of the string length.
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>>On the other hand, I don't have foxcrypto, so I don't really know anything about what it does or returns.
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