Imports System.Security.Cryptography
Imports System.Text
Module RSACSPExample
Sub Main()
Try
'Create a UnicodeEncoder to convert between byte array and string.
Dim ByteConverter As New ASCIIEncoding
Dim dataString As String = "Data to Encrypt"
'Create byte arrays to hold original, encrypted, and decrypted data.
Dim dataToEncrypt As Byte() = ByteConverter.GetBytes(dataString)
Dim encryptedData() As Byte
Dim decryptedData() As Byte
'Create a new instance of the RSACryptoServiceProvider class
' and automatically create a new key-pair.
Dim RSAalg As New RSACryptoServiceProvider
'Display the origianl data to the console.
Console.WriteLine("Original Data: {0}", dataString)
'Encrypt the byte array and specify no OAEP padding.
'OAEP padding is only available on Microsoft Windows XP or
'later.
encryptedData = RSAalg.Encrypt(dataToEncrypt, False)
'Display the encrypted data to the console.
Console.WriteLine("Encrypted Data: {0}", ByteConverter.GetString(encryptedData))
'Pass the data to ENCRYPT and boolean flag specifying
'no OAEP padding.
decryptedData = RSAalg.Decrypt(encryptedData, False)
'Display the decrypted plaintext to the console.
Console.WriteLine("Decrypted plaintext: {0}", ByteConverter.GetString(decryptedData))
Catch e As CryptographicException
'Catch this exception in case the encryption did
'not succeed.
Console.WriteLine(e.Message)
End Try
End Sub
End Module