String to hash method

using System.Security.Cryptography; // Importing the hash algoritm PUT THIS WITH THE OTHER USINGS IN YOUR CODE !!!!

        private string passToHash(string pass)
        {
        // Creating the hash algorithm
        HashAlgorithm algorithm = MD5.Create();
        // Creating the output from the hash in bytes
        byte[] hash = algorithm.ComputeHash(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(pass));


        // converting bytes in hash to string
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        foreach (byte b in hash)
        {
            sb.Append(b.ToString("X2")); // X2 makes it an uppercase hexadecimal character
        }

        return sb.ToString();
        }