DESCryptoServiceProvider Class
Updated: May 2010
Defines a wrapper object to access the cryptographic service provider (CSP) version of the Data Encryption Standard (DES) algorithm. This class cannot be inherited.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
This algorithm supports a key length of 64 bits.
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A newer symmetric encryption algorithm, Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), is available. Consider using the AesCryptoServiceProvider class instead of the DESCryptoServiceProvider class. |
The following example uses DESCryptoServiceProvider (an implementation of DES) with the specified key (Key) and initialization vector (IV) to encrypt a file specified by inName. It then outputs the encrypted result to the file specified by outName.
private static void EncryptData(String inName, String outName, byte[] desKey, byte[] desIV) { //Create the file streams to handle the input and output files. FileStream fin = new FileStream(inName, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read); FileStream fout = new FileStream(outName, FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Write); fout.SetLength(0); //Create variables to help with read and write. byte[] bin = new byte[100]; //This is intermediate storage for the encryption. long rdlen = 0; //This is the total number of bytes written. long totlen = fin.Length; //This is the total length of the input file. int len; //This is the number of bytes to be written at a time. DES des = new DESCryptoServiceProvider(); CryptoStream encStream = new CryptoStream(fout, des.CreateEncryptor(desKey, desIV), CryptoStreamMode.Write); Console.WriteLine("Encrypting..."); //Read from the input file, then encrypt and write to the output file. while(rdlen < totlen) { len = fin.Read(bin, 0, 100); encStream.Write(bin, 0, len); rdlen = rdlen + len; Console.WriteLine("{0} bytes processed", rdlen); } encStream.Close(); fout.Close(); fin.Close(); }
Decryption can be handled in the same way; use CreateDecryptor instead of CreateEncryptor. The same key (Key) and initialization vector (IV) used to encrypt the file must be used to decrypt it.
System.Security.Cryptography.SymmetricAlgorithm
System.Security.Cryptography.DES
System.Security.Cryptography.DESCryptoServiceProvider
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