Encryption

With this article, I will try my best to assist you in protecting valuable information such as Passwords, account numbers and so on.

If you don't want the overhead or complexity of a government-standard encryption technique, there is a simple solution.

Learn how to encrypt offline data, .NET style. Paul Kimmel offers you the opportunity to experiment with ADO.NET, XML serialization, streams, and the DPAPI—technologies you can use to encrypt user data.

Explains symmetric and asymmetric encryption, and then shows how to combine them. The .NET framework is used. All code snippets are written in VB.NET.

If you want to conceal chunks of data like connection strings or data written to a database or XML file then you could use the simplified class resting on the CryptoAPI demonstrated in this article.