Maybe this example listed here can help you out. Statement from the author
about 24 lines of code to encrypt, 23 to decrypt
Due to the fact that the link in the original posting is dead - here the needed code parts (c&p without any change to the original source)
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#region Usings
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.Text;
#endregion
namespace Utilities.Encryption
{
/// <summary>
/// Utility class that handles encryption
/// </summary>
public static class AESEncryption
{
#region Static Functions
/// <summary>
/// Encrypts a string
/// </summary>
/// <param name="PlainText">Text to be encrypted</param>
/// <param name="Password">Password to encrypt with</param>
/// <param name="Salt">Salt to encrypt with</param>
/// <param name="HashAlgorithm">Can be either SHA1 or MD5</param>
/// <param name="PasswordIterations">Number of iterations to do</param>
/// <param name="InitialVector">Needs to be 16 ASCII characters long</param>
/// <param name="KeySize">Can be 128, 192, or 256</param>
/// <returns>An encrypted string</returns>
public static string Encrypt(string PlainText, string Password,
string Salt = "Kosher", string HashAlgorithm = "SHA1",
int PasswordIterations = 2, string InitialVector = "OFRna73m*aze01xY",
int KeySize = 256)
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(PlainText))
return "";
byte[] InitialVectorBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(InitialVector);
byte[] SaltValueBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(Salt);
byte[] PlainTextBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(PlainText);
PasswordDeriveBytes DerivedPassword = new PasswordDeriveBytes(Password, SaltValueBytes, HashAlgorithm, PasswordIterations);
byte[] KeyBytes = DerivedPassword.GetBytes(KeySize / 8);
RijndaelManaged SymmetricKey = new RijndaelManaged();
SymmetricKey.Mode = CipherMode.CBC;
byte[] CipherTextBytes = null;
using (ICryptoTransform Encryptor = SymmetricKey.CreateEncryptor(KeyBytes, InitialVectorBytes))
{
using (MemoryStream MemStream = new MemoryStream())
{
using (CryptoStream CryptoStream = new CryptoStream(MemStream, Encryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Write))
{
CryptoStream.Write(PlainTextBytes, 0, PlainTextBytes.Length);
CryptoStream.FlushFinalBlock();
CipherTextBytes = MemStream.ToArray();
MemStream.Close();
CryptoStream.Close();
}
}
}
SymmetricKey.Clear();
return Convert.ToBase64String(CipherTextBytes);
}
/// <summary>
/// Decrypts a string
/// </summary>
/// <param name="CipherText">Text to be decrypted</param>
/// <param name="Password">Password to decrypt with</param>
/// <param name="Salt">Salt to decrypt with</param>
/// <param name="HashAlgorithm">Can be either SHA1 or MD5</param>
/// <param name="PasswordIterations">Number of iterations to do</param>
/// <param name="InitialVector">Needs to be 16 ASCII characters long</param>
/// <param name="KeySize">Can be 128, 192, or 256</param>
/// <returns>A decrypted string</returns>
public static string Decrypt(string CipherText, string Password,
string Salt = "Kosher", string HashAlgorithm = "SHA1",
int PasswordIterations = 2, string InitialVector = "OFRna73m*aze01xY",
int KeySize = 256)
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(CipherText))
return "";
byte[] InitialVectorBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(InitialVector);
byte[] SaltValueBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(Salt);
byte[] CipherTextBytes = Convert.FromBase64String(CipherText);
PasswordDeriveBytes DerivedPassword = new PasswordDeriveBytes(Password, SaltValueBytes, HashAlgorithm, PasswordIterations);
byte[] KeyBytes = DerivedPassword.GetBytes(KeySize / 8);
RijndaelManaged SymmetricKey = new RijndaelManaged();
SymmetricKey.Mode = CipherMode.CBC;
byte[] PlainTextBytes = new byte[CipherTextBytes.Length];
int ByteCount = 0;
using (ICryptoTransform Decryptor = SymmetricKey.CreateDecryptor(KeyBytes, InitialVectorBytes))
{
using (MemoryStream MemStream = new MemoryStream(CipherTextBytes))
{
using (CryptoStream CryptoStream = new CryptoStream(MemStream, Decryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Read))
{
ByteCount = CryptoStream.Read(PlainTextBytes, 0, PlainTextBytes.Length);
MemStream.Close();
CryptoStream.Close();
}
}
}
SymmetricKey.Clear();
return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(PlainTextBytes, 0, ByteCount);
}
#endregion
}
}