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")}) 

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

这将返回远程计算机上文件的MD5哈希值:

Invoke-Command -ComputerName RemoteComputerName -ScriptBlock {
    $fullPath = Resolve-Path 'c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe'
    $md5 = new-object -TypeName System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider
    $file = [System.IO.File]::OpenRead($fullPath)
    $hash = [System.BitConverter]::ToString($md5.ComputeHash($file))
    $hash -replace "-", ""
    $file.Dispose()
}

PowerShell One-Liners(字符串到散列)

MD5

([System.BitConverter]::ToString((New-Object -TypeName System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider).ComputeHash((New-Object -TypeName System.Text.UTF8Encoding).GetBytes("Hello, World!")))).Replace("-","")

SHA1

([System.BitConverter]::ToString((New-Object -TypeName System.Security.Cryptography.SHA1CryptoServiceProvider).ComputeHash((New-Object -TypeName System.Text.UTF8Encoding).GetBytes("Hello, World!")))).Replace("-","")

SHA256

([System.BitConverter]::ToString((New-Object -TypeName System.Security.Cryptography.SHA256CryptoServiceProvider).ComputeHash((New-Object -TypeName System.Text.UTF8Encoding).GetBytes("Hello, World!")))).Replace("-","")

SHA384

([System.BitConverter]::ToString((New-Object -TypeName System.Security.Cryptography.SHA384CryptoServiceProvider).ComputeHash((New-Object -TypeName System.Text.UTF8Encoding).GetBytes("Hello, World!")))).Replace("-","")

SHA512

([System.BitConverter]::ToString((New-Object -TypeName System.Security.Cryptography.SHA512CryptoServiceProvider).ComputeHash((New-Object -TypeName System.Text.UTF8Encoding).GetBytes("Hello, World!")))).Replace("-","")

(
    [System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider]::new().ComputeHash(
        [System.Text.UTF8Encoding]::new().GetBytes($yourText)
    ) `
    | %{ [Convert]::ToString($_, 16) }
) -join ''

$yourText = 'hello'输出5d41402abc4b2a76b9719d911017c592

正如已接受的答案中所述，Get-FileHash很容易用于文件，但也可以用于字符串:

$s = "asdf"
Get-FileHash -InputStream ([System.IO.MemoryStream]::New([System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes($s)))