using System;

using System.Text;

using System.Security.Cryptography;

public class Program

{

    public static void Main()

    {

        Console.WriteLine(CreateHash(DateTime.Now.ToString("dd-MMM-yyyy").ToUpper()).ToUpper());

        Console.WriteLine(CreateHash("tU5*bG9$dA3qP8s"));

    }

    public static string CreateHash(string InputString) {

            // step 1, calculate MD5 hash from input

            MD5 md5 = System.Security.Cryptography.MD5.Create();

            byte[] inputBytes = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(InputString);

            byte[] hash = md5.ComputeHash(inputBytes);

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            return ByteArrayToString(hash);

        }

        private static string ByteArrayToString(byte[] input) {

            //convert byte array to hex string

            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

            for (int i = 0; i < input.Length; i++) {

                sb.Append(input[i].ToString("X2"));

            }

            return sb.ToString();

        }

}