Encrypt string and save in DB

Question

Hello Experts I am developing web app using mvc in that i stored UserInfo into database. I have activationCode column in UserInfo I want Store string with Encrypted form in activationCode column...Please suggest how i do and which better Encrypted method i will use. Thank You

Ananth G · Answer

Hi Friend, Base64String is not Secure. you will use MD5 Encryption(Cryptography) I give code forMD5 Encryption and Decryption(Cryptography); passPhrase ,saltValue ,initVector this variables are the key for Encryption and Decryption public static string passPhrase = "YOUR KEY1"; public static string saltValue = "YOUR KE2"; public static string initVector = "YOUR KE3"; public static string FunForEncrypt(string objText) { int keySize = 256; int passwordIterations = 03; string hashAlgorithm = "MD5"; byte[] initVectorBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(initVector); byte[] saltValueBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(saltValue); byte[] plainTextBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(objText); PasswordDeriveBytes password = new PasswordDeriveBytes ( passPhrase, saltValueBytes, hashAlgorithm, passwordIterations ); byte[] keyBytes = password.GetBytes(keySize / 8); RijndaelManaged symmetricKey = new RijndaelManaged(); symmetricKey.Mode = CipherMode.CBC; ICryptoTransform encryptor = symmetricKey.CreateEncryptor ( keyBytes, initVectorBytes ); MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream(); CryptoStream cryptoStream = new CryptoStream ( memoryStream, encryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Write ); cryptoStream.Write(plainTextBytes, 0, plainTextBytes.Length); cryptoStream.FlushFinalBlock(); byte[] cipherTextBytes = memoryStream.ToArray(); memoryStream.Close(); cryptoStream.Close(); string cipherText = Convert.ToBase64String(cipherTextBytes); cipherText = HttpUtility.UrlEncode(cipherText); return cipherText; } public static string FunForDecrypt(string cipherText) { string plainText = ""; int keySize = 256; int passwordIterations = 03; string hashAlgorithm = "MD5"; try { cipherText = HttpUtility.UrlDecode(cipherText); byte[] initVectorBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(initVector); byte[] saltValueBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(saltValue); byte[] cipherTextBytes = Convert.FromBase64String(cipherText); PasswordDeriveBytes password = new PasswordDeriveBytes ( passPhrase, saltValueBytes, hashAlgorithm, passwordIterations ); byte[] keyBytes = password.GetBytes(keySize / 8); RijndaelManaged symmetricKey = new RijndaelManaged(); symmetricKey.Mode = CipherMode.CBC; ICryptoTransform decryptor = symmetricKey.CreateDecryptor ( keyBytes, initVectorBytes ); MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream(cipherTextBytes); CryptoStream cryptoStream = new CryptoStream ( memoryStream, decryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Read ); byte[] plainTextBytes = new byte[cipherTextBytes.Length]; int decryptedByteCount = cryptoStream.Read ( plainTextBytes, 0, plainTextBytes.Length ); memoryStream.Close(); cryptoStream.Close(); plainText = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(plainTextBytes, 0, decryptedByteCount); } catch (Exception ex) { plainText = ""; } return plainText; }