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Encryption in c#
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.Text;
namespace After024
{
internal class Program
{
private static void Main(string[] args)
{
const string dataToProtect = "This is a bunch of super secret content!";
var dataToProtectAsArray = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(dataToProtect);
#region File.Encrypt
var fileName = Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.MyDocuments),
"MyDataFile.txt");
// Encrypt a file in the file system
File.WriteAllText(fileName, dataToProtect);
// now we can encrypt it - only we can access it now
File.Encrypt(fileName);
#endregion
#region Windows Data Protection
// Windows Data Protection (we can also protect for the LocalMachine too)
// note, the null can be replaced with a byte[] for additional entropy
var wdpEncryptedData = ProtectedData.Protect(dataToProtectAsArray, null, DataProtectionScope.CurrentUser);
var wdpUnEncryptedData = ProtectedData.Unprotect(wdpEncryptedData, null, DataProtectionScope.CurrentUser);
var wdpUnencryptedString = Encoding.Unicode.GetString(wdpUnEncryptedData);
Debug.Assert(dataToProtect.Equals(wdpUnencryptedString));
#endregion
#region Hashing
// hashing - one-way encryption
// this represents a hashed password stored in a database
var storedPasswordHash = new byte[]
{
148, 152, 235, 251, 242, 51, 18, 100, 176, 51, 147, 249, 128, 175, 164, 106, 204, 48, 47, 154, 75,
82, 83, 170, 111, 8, 107, 51, 13, 83, 2, 252
};
var password = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes("P4ssw0rd!");
var passwordHash = SHA256.Create().ComputeHash(password);
// nice convenience method - can also supply a custom comparator
if (passwordHash.SequenceEqual(storedPasswordHash))
{
Console.WriteLine("Passwords match!");
}
#endregion
#region Symmetric
// symmetric encryption
// Uses Rijndael as an algorithm
// two classes Rijndael and Aes - use Aes (more secure)
// array of 16 random bytes - must be used for decryption - should be secret
var key = new byte[] {12, 2, 56, 117, 12, 67, 33, 23, 12, 2, 56, 117, 12, 67, 33, 23};
// another list of 16 bytes - can be shared publically, should be changed for each message exchange
var initializationVector = new byte[] {37, 99, 102, 23, 12, 22, 156, 204, 11, 12, 23, 44, 55, 1, 157, 233};
byte[] symEncryptedData;
// save for reuse
var algorithm = Aes.Create();
// encrypt
using (var encryptor = algorithm.CreateEncryptor(key, initializationVector))
using (var memoryStream = new MemoryStream())
using (var cryptoStream = new CryptoStream(memoryStream, encryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Write))
{
cryptoStream.Write(dataToProtectAsArray, 0, dataToProtectAsArray.Length);
cryptoStream.FlushFinalBlock();
symEncryptedData = memoryStream.ToArray();
}
// decrypt
byte[] symUnencryptedData;
using (var decryptor = algorithm.CreateDecryptor(key, initializationVector))
using (var memoryStream = new MemoryStream())
using (var cryptoStream = new CryptoStream(memoryStream, decryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Write))
{
cryptoStream.Write(symEncryptedData, 0, symEncryptedData.Length);
cryptoStream.FlushFinalBlock();
symUnencryptedData = memoryStream.ToArray();
}
algorithm.Dispose();
if (dataToProtectAsArray.SequenceEqual(symUnencryptedData))
{
Console.WriteLine("Symmetric encrypted values match!");
}
#endregion
#region Asymmetric
byte[] signature;
byte[] publicAndPrivateKey;
byte[] publicKeyOnly;
var hashImplementation = SHA1.Create();
// create a signature, create our public and private keys - we could save these out as XML, etc.
using (var rsaProvider = new RSACryptoServiceProvider())
{
signature = rsaProvider.SignData(dataToProtectAsArray, hashImplementation);
publicAndPrivateKey = rsaProvider.ExportCspBlob(true);
publicKeyOnly = rsaProvider.ExportCspBlob(false);
}
// create a new RSA
using (var rsaProvider = new RSACryptoServiceProvider())
{
// import our public key
rsaProvider.ImportCspBlob(publicKeyOnly);
// has it been tampered with?
if (!rsaProvider.VerifyData(dataToProtectAsArray, hashImplementation, signature))
{
Console.WriteLine("Data has been tampered with");
}
// now let's tamper with our data
dataToProtectAsArray[5] = 255;
if (!rsaProvider.VerifyData(dataToProtectAsArray, hashImplementation, signature))
{
Console.WriteLine("Data has been tampered with");
}
}
hashImplementation.Dispose();
#endregion
}
}
}
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Hi kid,
For clarification its Encryption in c# not in c++

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good

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