(VB.NET UWP/WinRT) Blowfish CFB Mode Encryption

Demonstrates how to encrypt using Blowfish CFB (Cipher Feedback) mode.

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

Dim crypt As New Chilkat.Crypt2

' Use "blowfish2" to produce correct results that match published blowfish test vectors.
crypt.CryptAlgorithm = "blowfish2"
crypt.CipherMode = "cfb"
crypt.KeyLength = 256

' EncodingMode specifies the encoding of the output for
' encryption, and the input for decryption.
' It may be "hex", "url", "base64", "quoted-printable", or many other choices.
crypt.EncodingMode = "hex"

' The block size of the blowfish algoirthm is 8 bytes, therefore the IV is 8 bytes.
Dim ivHex As String = "0001020304050607"
crypt.SetEncodedIV(ivHex,"hex")

' The secret key must equal the size of the key.  For
' 256-bit encryption, the binary secret key is 32 bytes.
Dim keyHex As String = "603deb1015ca71be2b73aef0857d77811f352c073b6108d72d9810a30914dff4"
crypt.SetEncodedKey(keyHex,"hex")

' Encrypt a string...
Dim encStr As String = crypt.EncryptStringENC("In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny. -- John Stuart Mill")
Debug.WriteLine(encStr)

Dim decrypt As New Chilkat.Crypt2

decrypt.CryptAlgorithm = "blowfish2"
decrypt.CipherMode = "cfb"
decrypt.KeyLength = 256
decrypt.EncodingMode = "hex"
decrypt.SetEncodedIV(ivHex,"hex")
decrypt.SetEncodedKey(keyHex,"hex")

' Now decrypt:
Dim decStr As String = decrypt.DecryptStringENC(encStr)
Debug.WriteLine(decStr)