Encrypt/Decrypt serialized data

[SunYour]

Does anyone have some nice code samples?
I need to put some data (confidantial data in a small "database").
I plan to use a xml schema to define the structure and
serialize/deserialize to read/store data with the XmlSerializer class.

But I need to protect the data with some kind of encryption.

Is the idea with the xml schema wrong? Better ideas?
It is, today, a CSV file like
a;b;d;e;f;g
a;b;c;d;e;f etc..

but now I would like to arrange the data in a better way and I thought
xml would be better. I'm not interested in using a real database Sql
Server desktop edition (?). Just a "plain" (encrypted) text file...


Best regards
/Magnus

 

[Patrick Smacchia]

..NET 2.0 have some nice wrappers for the Windows Data Protection API in the
System.Security.Cryptography namespace.
You can have a look at these code examples:
http://www.practicaldot.net/en2/Chapter_6/Listing_6_23.htm
http://www.practicaldot.net/en2/Chapter_6/Listing_6_24.htm
http://www.practicaldot.net/en2/Chapter_6/Listing_6_26.htm

They are extracted from the chapter 6 of my book, Practical .NET2 and C#2.
You can download this chapter freely and get explanations about these
classes here:
http://www.practicaldot.net/en2/Sample.htm

Patrick Smacchia
MVP.NET
Author of Practical .NET2 and C#2 http://www.PracticalDOT.NET
Author of NDepend: http://www.NDepend.com

 

[SunYour]

Patrick,

Thank you!
But how should I do to be able to encode a text file on one computer
and decode it on another computer as a different user.

ProtectedData.Protect(bMsg , entropy ,
DataProtectionScope.CurrentUser);

I need a data protection scope like DataProtectionScope.None or
something

Aný ideas? Better ways to encode whole text files?

Best regards
/Magnus

 

[Patrick Smacchia]

Then you should use the crypto algorithm directly without relying on DPAPI
wrappers.
For symmetric algo see:
http://www.practicaldot.net/en2/Chapter_6/Listing_6_20.htm
For asymmetric algo see:
http://www.practicaldot.net/en2/Chapter_6/Listing_6_22.htm

Patrick Smacchia
MVP.NET
Author of Practical .NET2 and C#2 http://www.PracticalDOT.NET
Author of NDepend: http://www.NDepend.com


"SunYour" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de (e-mail address removed)...
Patrick,

Thank you!
But how should I do to be able to encode a text file on one computer
and decode it on another computer as a different user.

ProtectedData.Protect(bMsg , entropy ,
DataProtectionScope.CurrentUser);

I need a data protection scope like DataProtectionScope.None or
something

Aný ideas? Better ways to encode whole text files?

Best regards
/Magnus

 

[Magnus]

Thank you!

Do you have a solution on how to deserialize a encrypted xml file as
well?

/Magnus