Encrypting a string

[Bob Hollness]

OK, this has me pulling my hair out. All I want to do is encrypt/decrypt
strings. They may be up to 400 characters in length though.

So, I assume System.Security.Cryptography is the one to use.

All the examples I have found are driving me nuts. They are either way too
long for something that I guess should be fairly straightforward, or I do
not especially trust them as they look pretty bad. The sample from MS only
applies to streams which I am not using.

Does anyone have any help? Sample code, as always, is most appreciated.

--
Bob Hollness

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I'll have a B please Bob

[Shiva]

Not sure if you have already looked at this or not. Check out
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...l/secmod25.asp

"Bob Hollness" <bo*@blockbuster.com> wrote in message
news:ex**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
OK, this has me pulling my hair out. All I want to do is encrypt/decrypt
strings. They may be up to 400 characters in length though.

So, I assume System.Security.Cryptography is the one to use.

All the examples I have found are driving me nuts. They are either way too
long for something that I guess should be fairly straightforward, or I do
not especially trust them as they look pretty bad. The sample from MS only
applies to streams which I am not using.

Does anyone have any help? Sample code, as always, is most appreciated.

--
Bob Hollness

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I'll have a B please Bob

[Bob Hollness]

Thanks, i'll read through this. It applies to C# though. Do you have a VB
ready version?

--
Bob Hollness

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I'll have a B please Bob

"Shiva" <sh******@online.excite.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

Not sure if you have already looked at this or not. Check out
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...l/secmod25.asp

"Bob Hollness" <bo*@blockbuster.com> wrote in message
news:ex**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
OK, this has me pulling my hair out. All I want to do is encrypt/decrypt
strings. They may be up to 400 characters in length though.

So, I assume System.Security.Cryptography is the one to use.

All the examples I have found are driving me nuts. They are either way
too
long for something that I guess should be fairly straightforward, or I do
not especially trust them as they look pretty bad. The sample from MS
only
applies to streams which I am not using.

Does anyone have any help? Sample code, as always, is most appreciated.

--
Bob Hollness

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I'll have a B please Bob

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Bob Hollness" <bo*@blockbuster.com> schrieb:

Thanks, i'll read through this. It applies to C# though. Do you have a
VB ready version?

Converting code between .NET programming languages
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=languageconverters&lang=en>

;-)

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>

[Greg Burns]

Bob Hollness wrote:

OK, this has me pulling my hair out. All I want to do is encrypt/decrypt
strings. They may be up to 400 characters in length though.

So, I assume System.Security.Cryptography is the one to use.

All the examples I have found are driving me nuts. They are either way too
long for something that I guess should be fairly straightforward, or I do
not especially trust them as they look pretty bad. The sample from MS only
applies to streams which I am not using.

Does anyone have any help? Sample code, as always, is most appreciated.

My question thread:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...e6f17c0d4fc80d

The solution thread:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...637c01e9fdd5b3

(thanks to Cor for the link)

HTH,
Greg

[Bob Hollness]

This is great thanks!

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Bob

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I'll have a B please Bob.

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi***************@gmx.at> wrote in message
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"Bob Hollness" <bo*@blockbuster.com> schrieb:

Thanks, i'll read through this. It applies to C# though. Do you have a
VB ready version?

Converting code between .NET programming languages
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=languageconverters&lang=en>

;-)

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>

[Bob Hollness]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...classtopic.asp

Why have MS made this so difficult? If I want to encrypt a string it seems
very long-winded, whereas, if I want to encrypt an entire file there are
plenty of examples from them.
The only example they provide for encrypting a string uses the
RijndaelManaged class and is used to encrypt the key and IV. Either I have
missed something or it is not something easy.

AAARGRGGHHH, Help!!!!!

--

Bob

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I'll have a B please Bob.

"Bob Hollness" <bo*@blockbuster.com> wrote in message
news:ex**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

OK, this has me pulling my hair out. All I want to do is encrypt/decrypt
strings. They may be up to 400 characters in length though.

So, I assume System.Security.Cryptography is the one to use.

All the examples I have found are driving me nuts. They are either way
too long for something that I guess should be fairly straightforward, or I
do not especially trust them as they look pretty bad. The sample from MS
only applies to streams which I am not using.

Does anyone have any help? Sample code, as always, is most appreciated.

--
Bob Hollness

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I'll have a B please Bob

[Bob Hollness]

Thanks. this worked perfectly.

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Bob

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I'll have a B please Bob.

"Greg Burns" <greg_burns@DONT_SPAM_ME_hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:u%****************@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...

Bob Hollness wrote:

OK, this has me pulling my hair out. All I want to do is encrypt/decrypt
strings. They may be up to 400 characters in length though.

So, I assume System.Security.Cryptography is the one to use.

All the examples I have found are driving me nuts. They are either way
too long for something that I guess should be fairly straightforward, or
I do not especially trust them as they look pretty bad. The sample from
MS only applies to streams which I am not using.

Does anyone have any help? Sample code, as always, is most appreciated.

My question thread:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...e6f17c0d4fc80d

The solution thread:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...637c01e9fdd5b3

(thanks to Cor for the link)

HTH,
Greg