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String.GetHashCode

Swedish Social Security Numbers (personnummer): Successfully inserted 8395 rows into a unique column in my test database before stumbling upon a unique constraint violation. String.GetHashCode is not unique enough for this approach. System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider worked better, as did the SHA512Crypto - 2 million hash values with no collisions. var generator = new System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider(); ... var input = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(reader.GetString(0)); var output = Convert.ToBase64String(generator.ComputeHash(input));