(VB.NET) Encrypt / Decrypt Secure Strings

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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'  This example requires the Chilkat Crypt API to have been previously unlocked.
'  See Unlock Chilkat Crypt for sample code.


'  Load the secure string with some text.
Dim secStr1 As New Chilkat.SecureString
Dim success As Boolean = secStr1.LoadFile("qa_data/txt/helloWorld.txt","utf-8")
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.WriteLine("Failed to load helloWorld.txt")
    Exit Sub
End If


Dim crypt As 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.
Dim encryptedStr As String = crypt.EncryptSecureENC(secStr1)
Debug.WriteLine("Encrypted string: " & encryptedStr)

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


'  Decrypt to secStr2:
Dim secStr2 As New Chilkat.SecureString
crypt.DecryptSecureENC(encryptedStr,secStr2)

'  Access the contents of secStr2
Debug.WriteLine("Decrypted string: " & secStr2.Access())

'  Output:
'  Decrypted string: Hello World!