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!

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

IctSnx399ivl5GGB1Sub9g==

The compact framework generates this:

/CrhsbWmX7UNQCDpGpdcug==

The text being encrypted is:  cjones7308

TIA!

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