The .net framework contains useful classes for encryption found in the System.Security.Cryptography namespace. Even though these classes shield the developer from the complexity of the encryption algorithms, there is still a significant amount of implementation detail to handle. Under most scenarios, a developer simply wants a function that takes a clear text string as a parameter and returns an encrypted string. The C# code for this function is below
public string EncryptString(string ClearText)
{
byte[] clearTextBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(ClearText);
System.Security.Cryptography.SymmetricAlgorithm rijn = SymmetricAlgorithm.Create();
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
byte[] rgbIV = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("ryojvlzmdalyglrj");
byte[] key = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("hcxilkqbbhczfeultgbskdmaunivmfuo");
CryptoStream cs = new CryptoStream(ms, rijn.CreateEncryptor(key, rgbIV),
CryptoStreamMode.Write);
cs.Write(clearTextBytes, 0, clearTextBytes.Length);
cs.Close();
return Convert.ToBase64String(ms.ToArray());
}
The function to go from an encrypted string to clear text will do everything in the function above but in the opposite order.
private string DecryptString(string EncryptedText)
{
byte[] encryptedTextBytes = Convert.FromBase64String(EncryptedText);
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
System.Security.Cryptography.SymmetricAlgorithm rijn = SymmetricAlgorithm.Create();
byte[] rgbIV = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("ryojvlzmdalyglrj");
byte[] key = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("hcxilkqbbhczfeultgbskdmaunivmfuo");
CryptoStream cs = new CryptoStream(ms, rijn.CreateDecryptor(key, rgbIV),
CryptoStreamMode.Write);
cs.Write(encryptedTextBytes, 0, encryptedTextBytes.Length);
cs.Close();
return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(ms.ToArray());
}
Be sure to replace the encryption keys I provided above with your own unique values. This site is an easy way to generate random letters of a given length. Also, note that the encryption type used above is symmetric t. If you need an asymmetric or hash algorithm use the appropriate class within the Cryptography namespace.