CryptographyEncryptAsync(String, String, String, CancellationToken) Method

public static Task<string> EncryptAsync(
	string plainText,
	string key,
	string providerName,
	CancellationToken cancellationToken = default
)

Parameters

plainText  String

The string to encrypt.

key  String

The key to encrypt the plaintext.

providerName  String

The type name of any symmetric cryptography provider derived from SymmetricAlgorithm that will perform the encryption.

cancellationToken  CancellationToken  (Optional)

A CancellationToken controlling the request lifetime

Return Value

The default encryption algorithm is DES. Any other class derived from SymmetricAlgorithm can be used instead.

Adapted from work by Frank Fong and William Rawls of the Code Project.

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