网上有很多使用ComputeHash()的例子。我的测试显示，在网络连接上运行时速度非常慢。下面的片段对我来说运行得更快，但你的里程可能会有所不同:

$md5 = [System.Security.Cryptography.MD5]::Create("MD5")
$fd = [System.IO.File]::OpenRead($file)
$buf = New-Object byte[] (1024*1024*8) # 8 MB buffer
while (($read_len = $fd.Read($buf,0,$buf.length)) -eq $buf.length){
    $total += $buf.length
    $md5.TransformBlock($buf,$offset,$buf.length,$buf,$offset)
    Write-Progress -Activity "Hashing File" `
       -Status $file -percentComplete ($total/$fd.length * 100)
}

# Finalize the last read
$md5.TransformFinalBlock($buf, 0, $read_len)
$hash = $md5.Hash

# Convert hash bytes to a hexadecimal formatted string
$hash | foreach { $hash_txt += $_.ToString("x2") }
Write-Host $hash_txt

下面是我用来获取给定字符串的MD5的代码片段:

$text = "text goes here..."
$md5  = [Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider]::new()
$utf8 = [Text.UTF8Encoding]::UTF8
$bytes= $md5.ComputeHash($utf8.GetBytes($text))
$hash = [string]::Concat($bytes.foreach{$_.ToString("x2")}) 

这里有两行，只需在第2行中更改“hello”:

PS C:\> [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Web")
PS C:\> [System.Web.Security.FormsAuthentication]::HashPasswordForStoringInConfigFile("hello", "MD5")

团队! 看看我的哈希计算函数。

Function Get-StringHash {
<#
    .DESCRIPTION
        Get string persistant hash.        
#>
    [OutputType([string])]
    [CmdletBinding()]
    Param(
        [Parameter( Mandatory = $True, Position = 0, HelpMessage = "String to calculate hash." )]
        [string] $String,
        [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, Position = 0, HelpMessage = "String encoding." )]
        [ValidateSet( 'UTF8' )]
        [string] $StringEncoding = 'UTF8',
        [Parameter( Mandatory = $false, Position = 2, HelpMessage = "Hash algoritm." )]
        [ValidateSet( 'md5', 'sha256', 'sha512' )]
        [string] $Algoritm = 'sha256'
    )
    try {
        #region functions
        #endregion

        $Result = $null

        switch ( $Algoritm ) {
            'md5' {  
                $HashProvider = New-Object -TypeName System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider
            }
            'sha256' {  
                $HashProvider = New-Object -TypeName System.Security.Cryptography.SHA256CryptoServiceProvider
            }
            'sha512' {  
                $HashProvider = New-Object -TypeName System.Security.Cryptography.SHA512CryptoServiceProvider
            }
            Default {}
        }

        switch ( $StringEncoding ) {
            'UTF8' {  
                $Encoding = New-Object -TypeName System.Text.UTF8Encoding
            }
            Default {}
        }
        
        
        $Result = [System.BitConverter]::ToString( $HashProvider.ComputeHash( $Encoding.GetBytes( $String ) )).replace('-','')

    }
    catch {
        Get-ErrorReporting -Trap $_
    }

    return $Result
}

$String   = 'Some text'
$Algoritm = 'MD5'

$Hash = Get-StringHash -String $String -Algoritm $Algoritm

write-host "$String has $Algoritm hash $hash"

从PowerShell版本4开始，使用Get-FileHash cmdlet可以很容易地实现文件的开箱即用:

Get-FileHash <filepath> -Algorithm MD5

这当然是更可取的，因为它避免了注释中指出的旧PowerShell解决方案所提供的问题(使用流，关闭它，并支持大文件)。

如果内容是字符串:

$someString = "Hello, World!"
$md5 = New-Object -TypeName System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider
$utf8 = New-Object -TypeName System.Text.UTF8Encoding
$hash = [System.BitConverter]::ToString($md5.ComputeHash($utf8.GetBytes($someString)))

对于较旧的PowerShell版本

如果内容为文件:

$someFilePath = "C:\foo.txt"
$md5 = New-Object -TypeName System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider
$hash = [System.BitConverter]::ToString($md5.ComputeHash([System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes($someFilePath)))

下面是一个尝试验证SHA256指纹的漂亮打印示例。我使用PowerShell v4下载了gpg4win v3.0.3(需要Get-FileHash)。

从https://www.gpg4win.org/download.html下载包，打开PowerShell，从下载页面抓取散列，然后运行:

cd ${env:USERPROFILE}\Downloads
$file = "gpg4win-3.0.3.exe"

# Set $hash to the hash reference from the download page:
$hash = "477f56212ee60cc74e0c5e5cc526cec52a069abff485c89c2d57d1b4b6a54971"

# If you have an MD5 hash: # $hashAlgo="MD5"
$hashAlgo = "SHA256"

$computed_hash = (Get-FileHash -Algorithm $hashAlgo $file).Hash.ToUpper()
if ($computed_hash.CompareTo($hash.ToUpper()) -eq 0 ) {
    Write-Output "Hash matches for file $file" 
} 
else { 
    Write-Output ("Hash DOES NOT match for file {0}: `nOriginal hash: {1} `nComputed hash: {2}" -f ($file, $hash.ToUpper(), $computed_hash)) 
}

输出:

Hash matches for file gpg4win-3.0.3.exe