Good morning all,

I'm working on an MD5 file integrity check tool in C#.

How long should it take for a file to be given an MD5 checksum value? For example, if I try to get a 2gb .mpg file, it is taking around 5 mins+ each time. This seems overly long.

Am I just being impatient?

Below is the code I'm running

public string getHash(String @fileLocation)
    {
        FileStream fs = new FileStream(@fileLocation, FileMode.Open);

        HashAlgorithm alg = new HMACMD5();
        byte[] hashValue = alg.ComputeHash(fs);

        string md5Result = "";

        foreach (byte x in hashValue)
        {
            md5Result += x;
        }           

        fs.Close();           

        return md5Result;           
    }

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Regards