[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: .Net SHA512CryptoServiceProvider not found on 11.6.3

[Stefan Drissen]

Thanks for looking. "Interestingly" the SHA512 and SHA512Managed classes both can be found (and compile) whereas SHA512Cng and SHA512CrytpoServiceProvider both cannot be found. I seem to be able to replace the SHA512CryptoServiceProvider with the SHA512Managed class and everything works. I was given a C# source that was using the SHA512CryptoServiceProvider. Based on social.msdn.microsoft.com/.../managed-vs-nonmanaged-hashing-algorythms-sha512-vs-sha512managed I am going to guess that SHA512CryptoServiceProvider performs better than SHA512Managed - I am going to bet that that performance gain has already been completely blown on the hours spent figuring out why it wasn't working

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