diff --git a/Pilz.Gaming.Minecraft/Utils.cs b/Pilz.Gaming.Minecraft/Utils.cs
index c3addd1..ba344e0 100644
--- a/Pilz.Gaming.Minecraft/Utils.cs
+++ b/Pilz.Gaming.Minecraft/Utils.cs
@@ -7,11 +7,9 @@ public static class Utils
 {
     public static string GetUUID(string value)
     {
-        using var md5 = MD5.Create();
-
         //extracted from the java code:
         //new GameProfile(UUID.nameUUIDFromBytes(("OfflinePlayer:" + name).getBytes(Charsets.UTF_8)), name));
-        byte[] data = md5.ComputeHash(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(value));
+        var data = MD5.HashData(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(value));
         //set the version to 3 -> Name based md5 hash
         data[6] = Convert.ToByte(data[6] & 0x0f | 0x30);
         //IETF variant