I needed to get the hash as a string from a byte[]. I was snooping around X509Certificate class and saw a GetHashString method. After a bit more digging i ended up at System.Security.Util.Hex this had the method i was looking for. Check out the EncodeHexString method.
public static String EncodeHexString(byte[] sArray)
{
String result = null;
if(sArray != null) {
char[] hexOrder = new char[sArray.Length * 2];
int digit;
for(int i = 0, j = 0; i < sArray.Length; i++) {
digit = (int)((sArray[i] & 0xf0) >> 4);
hexOrder[j++] = HexDigit(digit);
digit = (int)(sArray[i] & 0x0f);
}
result = new String(hexOrder);
return result;
// converts number to hex digit. Does not do any range checks.
static char HexDigit(int num) {
return (char)((num < 10) ? (num + '0') : (num + ('A' - 10)));
After having played with STS for some time I came across this interesting read. The scenario that Sam Gentile suggests for roles using AzMan and integrating with WCF is something that more customers should leverage for better value for exisitng infrastrucre that they already posses most of the time.
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