MD5 encryption returns different value on compact framework

[jcaulder]

I have code that encrypts a user password and stores in a database. The initial insertion occurs using a desktop application running full 2.0 .Net framework. When the user attempts to log in on a handheld device running the compact framework, I use the same code to take the supplied user password and encrypt it. I then compare that value to the database stored value and they don't match. Can anyone assist in telling me what to change to resolve this? I thought it was the encoding but no combination works to fix this. It is and always has been using ASCII encoding. The code is below:


Function EncryptToMD5String(ByVal SourceText As String) As String

'Create an encoding object to ensure the encoding standard for the source text
Dim Ue As New System.Text.ASCIIEncoding
'Retrieve a byte array based on the source text
Dim ByteSourceText() As Byte = Ue.GetBytes(SourceText)
'Instantiate an MD5 Provider object
Dim Md5 As New MD5CryptoServiceProvider
'Compute the hash value from the source
Dim ByteHash() As Byte = Md5.ComputeHash(ByteSourceText)
'And convert it to String format for return
Return Convert.ToBase64String(ByteHash)

End Function

Thanks!

 

[jcaulder]

Just for clarification, the desktop application generates the following value:

IctSnx399ivl5GGB1Sub9g==

The compact framework generates this:

/CrhsbWmX7UNQCDpGpdcug==

The text being encrypted is: cjones7308

TIA!

 

[jcaulder]

Disregard the post. The information provided to me and posted was inaccurate.