Introduction
Nowadays,Information Security is becoming too important. Encryption and Decryption is playing major role in Authunticating the Resource. Both Windows and Web application, We must have Security implemented in some way, that brings the whole system more Reliable.
In this article, We would see, how the Encryption and Decryption can be implemented in Both Windows and Webapplication.. This Article will explain the functionality in highlevel with corresponding code snippet, that can be altered based on our software Requirements.
Implementation in Windows Forms
In the Windows application , we can use the encryption and decryption to store important or sensitive data in to Data base by encrypting and the same encrypted value can be decrypted and used in the application. Banking domain uses encryption and decryption with more important. That brings the whole system more reliable as i mentioned earlier. Please follow the code and corresponding Explanation to understand the same.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.IO;
namespace EncryptionDecryption
{
public partial class Security : Form
{
public Security()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
public string strUsrname = "";
public string strPwd = "";
public string strEncryptValue = "";
private void BtnSubmit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
strUsrname = TxtUsername.Text.Trim();
strPwd = TxtPassword.Text.Trim();
strEncryptValue=Encrypt(strUsrname, strPwd);
label4.Text = strEncryptValue.Trim();
}
public static string Encrypt(string strTextValue, string Password)
{
//Convert Stringvalue to Array
byte[] TextArray = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(strTextValue);
//We will change tha password to Key and IV (Initialization Vector) and using All the Possible Values, we prepare the password
PasswordDeriveBytes objPwdDeriBytes = new PasswordDeriveBytes(Password, new byte[] {0x76, 0x65, 0x6e,0x65 , 0x4d,
0x20, 0x64, 0x76,0x61 , 0x64, 0x65,0x49 });
//The Encryption model Rijndael uses key length as 32bytes and IV uses 16 bytes by default.
byte[] ByteencryptedValue = Encrypt(TextArray,
objPwdDeriBytes.GetBytes(32), objPwdDeriBytes.GetBytes(16));
//Finally we convert array to string - 64 byte conversion is recommeded here as all the byte values may not be converted to Characters.
return Convert.ToBase64String(ByteencryptedValue);
}
public static byte[] Encrypt(byte[] strTextValue, byte[] ByteKey, byte[] ByteIV)
{
MemoryStream objMemoryStream = new MemoryStream();
Rijndael objAlgorithRIJ = Rijndael.Create();
// Now set the key and the IV.
objAlgorithRIJ.Key = ByteKey;
objAlgorithRIJ.IV = ByteIV;
// CryptoStream will help to write data in to stream and out put can be stored in the memory stream.
CryptoStream objCryptoStream = new CryptoStream(objMemoryStream,
objAlgorithRIJ.CreateEncryptor(), CryptoStreamMode.Write);
// Data becomes encrypted
objCryptoStream.Write(strTextValue, 0, strTextValue.Length);
objCryptoStream.Close();
//Get the Encrypt data from Memory Stream.
byte[] ByteencryptedValue = objMemoryStream.ToArray();
return ByteencryptedValue;
}
public static string Decrypt(string strTextValue, string Password)
{
byte[] ByteObj = Convert.FromBase64String(strTextValue);
PasswordDeriveBytes ByteencryptedValue = new PasswordDeriveBytes(Password,
new byte[] {0x76, 0x65, 0x6e,0x65 , 0x4d,
0x20, 0x64, 0x76,0x61 , 0x64, 0x65,0x49 });
byte[] bytedecryptedValue = Decrypt(ByteObj,
ByteencryptedValue.GetBytes(32), ByteencryptedValue.GetBytes(16));
return System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetString(bytedecryptedValue);
}
public static byte[] Decrypt(byte[] strTextValue,
byte[] ByteKey, byte[] ByteIV)
{
MemoryStream objMemoryStream = new MemoryStream();
Rijndael objAlgorithRIJ = Rijndael.Create();
objAlgorithRIJ.Key = ByteKey;
objAlgorithRIJ.IV = ByteIV;
CryptoStream objCryptoStream = new CryptoStream(objMemoryStream,
objAlgorithRIJ.CreateDecryptor(), CryptoStreamMode.Write);
objCryptoStream.Write(strTextValue, 0, strTextValue.Length);
objCryptoStream.Close();
byte[] Bytedecryptedvalue = objMemoryStream.ToArray();
return Bytedecryptedvalue;
}
private void BtnDecrypt_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//Pull Encrypted Value from the Database for the input[Username / Password] , and tha can be used based on our Requirements.
//Here we show on the screen.
string strDecryptValue = Decrypt(strEncryptValue , strPwd);
label5.Text = strDecryptValue.Trim();
}
}
}
Implementing in Web Forms
WebApplication are distributed on the internet, and that requires more security as the end users are very huge. In order to transfer data online, we need to implement Encryption and Decryption. But In this article, we would see how Different parts/sections of webconfig can be encrypted.
Imports System.Web.Configuration
Partial Class _Default
Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
Private strprovider As String = "RSAProtectedConfigurationProvider"
'Private strprovider As String = "ProviderArea"
Private strConfigsection As String = "connectionStrings"
Protected Sub Encrypt_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles
Encrypt.Click
Dim objConfiguration As Configuration = WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration(Request.ApplicationPath)
Dim objConfigurationSection As ConfigurationSection = objConfiguration.GetSection(strConfigsection)
If Not objConfigurationSection Is Nothing Then
objConfigurationSection.SectionInformation.ProtectSection(strprovider)
objConfiguration.Save()
End If
End Sub
Protected Sub Decrypt_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles
Decrypt.Click
Dim objConfiguration As Configuration = WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration
(Request.ApplicationPath)
Dim objConfigurationSection As ConfigurationSection = objConfiguration.GetSection
(strConfigsection)
If Not objConfigurationSection Is Nothing
And objConfigurationSection.SectionInformation.IsProtected Then
objConfigurationSection.SectionInformation.UnprotectSection()
objConfiguration.Save()
End If
End Sub
End Class
Note: The provider name can be found in the Machine.config file, which is located at \Windows\Microsoft.Net\Framework\v2.x\Config
Step1: Create the website appliction and add two buttons on it. Write the above code in each button event.
Step2: Run the App [Add the Web.config file if you don't have one - Will ask you to add when you run at first time].
Step3: Click the Encrypt Button and come back to Code - You will get a popup saying the webconfig file has changed as shown below. Say yes to reload and open the config file, where you can find the Connectstring got encrypted .
Now you can see the Decrypted values in the connection string
Step4:Come back to Browser and click the Decrypt Button to get decrypted. As mentioned in the Step3, it will again ask you to read load the webconfig. Say yes and see the connection string now , it got Decrypted as shown below:
Conclusion
The code would just help to get an idea that how to encrypt and decrypt the values in both windows and web application. Based on Requirements , we can make use of it accordingly.
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