How to implement 3DES in VB.NET?

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How to implement 3DES in VB.NET?Please provide VB.NET code.

Muralidharan Deenathayalan · Answer

Imports System.IO Imports System.Text Imports System.Security.Cryptography Friend Class cTripleDES ' define the triple des provider Private m_des As New TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider ' define the string handler Private m_utf8 As New UTF8Encoding ' define the local property arrays Private m_key() As Byte Private m_iv() As Byte Public Sub New ( ByVal key() As Byte, ByVal iv() As Byte ) Me .m_key = key Me .m_iv = iv End Sub Public Function Encrypt( ByVal input() As Byte ) As Byte () Return Transform(input, m_des.CreateEncryptor(m_key, m_iv)) End Function Public Function Decrypt( ByVal input() As Byte ) As Byte () Return Transform(input, m_des.CreateDecryptor(m_key, m_iv)) End Function Public Function Encrypt( ByVal text As String ) As String Dim input() As Byte = m_utf8.GetBytes(text) Dim output() As Byte = Transform(input, _ m_des.CreateEncryptor(m_key, m_iv)) Return Convert.ToBase64String(output) End Function Public Function Decrypt( ByVal text As String ) As String Dim input() As Byte = Convert.FromBase64String(text) Dim output() As Byte = Transform(input, _ m_des.CreateDecryptor(m_key, m_iv)) Return m_utf8.GetString(output) End Function Private Function Transform( ByVal input() As Byte, _ ByVal CryptoTransform As ICryptoTransform) As Byte () ' create the necessary streams Dim memStream As MemoryStream = New MemoryStream Dim cryptStream As CryptoStream = New _ CryptoStream(memStream, CryptoTransform, _ CryptoStreamMode.Write) ' transform the bytes as requested cryptStream.Write(input, 0, input.Length) cryptStream.FlushFinalBlock() ' Read the memory stream and convert it back into byte array memStream.Position = 0 Dim result( CType (memStream.Length - 1, System. Int32 )) As Byte memStream.Read(result, 0, CType (result.Length, System. Int32 )) ' close and release the streams memStream.Close() cryptStream.Close() ' hand back the encrypted buffer Return result End Function End Class http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.security.cryptography.tripledes.aspx Hope this helps you

How to implement 3DES in VB.NET?

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