From a myTextBox.Text to a mySecureString.

[thomasnguyencom]

What's the best way to handle this situation securely?

I'm currently manually converting the string to a SecureString, but
for some reason it looks ugly.

public SecureString ConvertToSecureString (string str)
{
SecureString secureString = new SecureString();
foreach (char c in str)
{
secureString.AppendChar(c);
}

return secureString;
}

Thanks,
-tom

 

[Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]]

AppendChar, InsertAt, and RemoveAt are the only methods available.
So, it may be ugly but that's the deal, essentially.
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