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PowerShell snipper to make an MD5 hash string from an arbitrary string
$stringToBeHashed = "john-disqus@how-hard-can-it-be.com"
$md5Hash = [Security.Cryptography.MD5]::Create()
$hashBytes = $md5Hash.ComputeHash($stringToBeHashed.ToCharArray())
$hashString = ""
foreach ($b in $hashBytes) { $hashString = $hashString + $b.ToString("x2")}
$hashString
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