January 6th, 2009
Encrypting and Decrypting a C# string - 13
The .NET C# library provides all the basic elements for encrypting a string with a passphrase and decrypting it later. Doing this however requires a few steps in between. This post show a simple set of routines to help you do just that. We use the TripleDES encryption suite to do the actual encryption, with a little help from the MD5 hash sum generator.
The complete source code is listed below, but lets have a little look at how it works first.
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