Your comment isn’t right and pretty flat, without explanation. Since .NET 5 there are static methods, yes, but how am I supposed to inject different hash algos by dependency injection with static things? And those ComputeHash-Methods are more or less just aliases. Even though CA1850 recommends using the static counterparties, I’ll stay with the ComputeHash approach to stay DI ready (easily / without making a wrapper class). I will add this thought process to the blog post, so everyone can decide on his own.