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Encrypt / Decrypt Secure Strings

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Demonstrates how to use the EncryptSecureENC and DecryptSecureENC methods to encrypt/decrypt secure strings. These methods were added in Chilkat v9.5.0.71 (released January 2018).

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bool success = false;

// This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

// Load the secure string with some text.
Chilkat.SecureString secStr1 = new Chilkat.SecureString();
success = secStr1.LoadFile("qa_data/txt/helloWorld.txt","utf-8");
if (success != true) {
    Debug.WriteLine("Failed to load helloWorld.txt");
    return;
}

Chilkat.Crypt2 crypt = new Chilkat.Crypt2();

crypt.CryptAlgorithm = "aes";
crypt.CipherMode = "cbc";
crypt.KeyLength = 128;
crypt.SetEncodedKey("000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F","hex");
crypt.SetEncodedIV("000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F","hex");
crypt.EncodingMode = "base64";

// Return the base64 encoded encrypted contents of secStr1.
string encryptedStr = crypt.EncryptSecureENC(secStr1);
Debug.WriteLine("Encrypted string: " + encryptedStr);

// Output:
// Encrypted string: qiq+IFhcjTkEIkZyf31V/g==

// Decrypt to secStr2:
Chilkat.SecureString secStr2 = new Chilkat.SecureString();
crypt.DecryptSecureENC(encryptedStr,secStr2);

// Access the contents of secStr2
Debug.WriteLine("Decrypted string: " + secStr2.Access());

// Output:
// Decrypted string: Hello World!