As I understand Hash Values - in particular MD5 and SHA - they are Integer Values. I would like to use those integer values.
But so far every function I found to generate a MD5/SHA hash gives me a padded, hexdecimal string representation of the number - not the number itself.
Storing and prcoessing a 32/40 byte String instead of a 16/20 byte Number is kinda stupid. I could propably parse the Hexadecimal String back to a number*, but that seems like a waste of processing time.
Is there a Function/Class to generate MD5/SHA hashes that gives me a number (instead of a string) and I have just been to blind to find it?
*I am almost certain the .NET Parse or Convert functions had something for parsing Hexadecimal Strings. If not I could use code for that too.
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