How To—Create an Encryption Library

Overview

This How To describes how to create a generic encryption library that can be used to encrypt and decrypt data using the following algorithms:

• DES (Digital Encryption Standard)

• Triple DES

• Rijndael

• RC2

For an example application that uses the class library created in this How To, see “How To: Store Encrypted Connection Strings in the Registry” in the Reference section of this book.