class StringEncryption { // This constant string is used as a "salt" value for the PasswordDeriveBytes function calls. // This size of the IV (in bytes) must = (keysize / 8). Default keysize is 256, so the IV must be // 32 bytes long. Using a 16 character string here gives us 32 bytes when converted to a byte array. private static readonly byte[] initVectorBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("tu82784ji34085t89jhb2"); private static string passPhrase = "YourPass"; // define your pass here // This constant is used to determine the keysize of the encryption algorithm. private const int keysize = 256; public static string Encrypt(string plainText) { byte[] plainTextBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(plainText); using (PasswordDeriveBytes password = new PasswordDeriveBytes(passPhrase, null)) { byte[] keyBytes = password.GetBytes(keysize / 8); using (RijndaelManaged symmetricKey = new RijndaelManaged()) { symmetricKey.Mode = CipherMode.CBC; using (ICryptoTransform encryptor = symmetricKey.CreateEncryptor(keyBytes, initVectorBytes)) { using (MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream()) { using (CryptoStream cryptoStream = new CryptoStream(memoryStream, encryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Write)) { cryptoStream.Write(plainTextBytes, 0, plainTextBytes.Length); cryptoStream.FlushFinalBlock(); byte[] cipherTextBytes = memoryStream.ToArray(); return Convert.ToBase64String(cipherTextBytes); } } } } } } public static string Decrypt(string cipherText) { byte[] cipherTextBytes = Convert.FromBase64String(cipherText); using (PasswordDeriveBytes password = new PasswordDeriveBytes(passPhrase, null)) { byte[] keyBytes = password.GetBytes(keysize / 8); using (RijndaelManaged symmetricKey = new RijndaelManaged()) { symmetricKey.Mode = CipherMode.CBC; using (ICryptoTransform decryptor = symmetricKey.CreateDecryptor(keyBytes, initVectorBytes)) { using (MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream(cipherTextBytes)) { using (CryptoStream cryptoStream = new CryptoStream(memoryStream, decryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Read)) { byte[] plainTextBytes = new byte[cipherTextBytes.Length]; int decryptedByteCount = cryptoStream.Read(plainTextBytes, 0, plainTextBytes.Length); return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(plainTextBytes, 0, decryptedByteCount); } } } } } } }