Password Encryption to MD5

This code describes that how to encrypt the provided password in C#.net windows form or in asp.net. I have used mysql database server for my C#.net application where password is encrypted. So, when I am logging in my application, need to encrypt the given password and i have wrote the following code in my application.

First I have declare  Byte type variables for original password and encrypted password. Then I have created an object for MD5 encryption.

So, lets enjoy.


public static string EncodePassword(string originalPassword)
{
//Declarations
Byte[] originalBytes;
Byte[] encodedBytes;
MD5 md5;


//Instantiate MD5CryptoServiceProvider, get bytes for original 
//password and compute hash (encoded password)
md5 = new MD5CryptoServiceProvider();
originalBytes = ASCIIEncoding.Default.GetBytes(originalPassword);
encodedBytes = md5.ComputeHash(originalBytes);


//Convert encoded bytes back to a 'readable' string
return BitConverter.ToString(encodedBytes);
}