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X509Certificate.GetCertHashString Method

Returns the SHA1 hash value for the X.509v3 certificate as a hexadecimal string.

Namespace:  System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
public virtual string GetCertHashString()

Return Value

Type: System.String
The hexadecimal string representation of the X.509 certificate hash value.

The following example uses the GetCertHashString method to get an X.509 certificate hash value, convert it to a string, and display it to the console.


using System;
using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates;


public class X509
{

    public static void Main()
    {

        // The path to the certificate. 
        string Certificate =  "Certificate.cer";

        // Load the certificate into an X509Certificate object.
        X509Certificate cert = X509Certificate.CreateFromCertFile(Certificate);

        // Get the value. 
        string results = cert.GetCertHashString();

        // Display the value to the console.
        Console.WriteLine(results);

    }

}

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4.5, 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

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