encryption in .NET 2.0

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eugenet

Hello,

I need to encrypt and decrypt a string in .NET Framwork 2.0.

What is the easiest way to do it?

I know that there are many different ways to use encryption in .NET,
some more complex than others. All I need is to hide from an end-user
some clear-text settings -- nothing super secretive.

The reliability of the encryption routine and the easy of development
are the primary goals.

Thank you for your advice.

Evgueni
 
Evgueni,
I need to encrypt and decrypt a string in .NET Framwork 2.0.

What is the easiest way to do it?
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As you say it's nothing super secretive, so I'm assuming that you just
need to encrypt something so the average user doesn't mess about with it.

If that is the case, a simple base64 encoding and decoding method would
do the job.

Regards,

Richard
 
Hello,

I need to encrypt and decrypt a string in .NET Framwork 2.0.

What is the easiest way to do it?

I know that there are many different ways to use encryption in .NET,
some more complex than others. All I need is to hide from an end-user
some clear-text settings -- nothing super secretive.

The reliability of the encryption routine and the easy of development
are the primary goals.

Thank you for your advice.

Evgueni
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If you need to hash something, I'd use System.Security.Cryptography.MD5 or
another class from the Cryptography. Heck, if I needed to do anything
cryptographically, I'd use the System.Security.Cryptography namespace :)

Mythran
 
if you want to do something reallyreallysimple, use an XOR algorithm.

You only need one method, it will XOR each character against a known value
(from 0 to 255 for ASCII) and spit out an xor-ed string that is the same
length as the original. To Decrypt it, send the xor-ed string back into the
same method. You can do all this in about 5 lines of code.
Peter
 
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