Rijndael algorithm (How to create our own Key )

Question

All the samples for Rijndael algorithm are defining the key from the Rijndael class itself, can\'t we provide the Key of our own. Any hint on this will help me a lot.

Th

Answer 1

You can try something like this, based on the RijndaelManaged Class MSDN article that I also recommend you to read.

var plainText = "This will be encrypted.";
var aesAlg = new RijndaelManaged();
aesAlg.Key = new byte[32] { 118, 123, 23, 17, 161, 152, 35, 68, 126, 213, 16, 115, 68, 217, 58, 108, 56, 218, 5, 78, 28, 128, 113, 208, 61, 56, 10, 87, 187, 162, 233, 38 };
aesAlg.IV = new byte[16] { 33, 241, 14, 16, 103, 18, 14, 248, 4, 54, 18, 5, 60, 76, 16, 191};
ICryptoTransform encryptor = aesAlg.CreateEncryptor(aesAlg.Key, aesAlg.IV);

msEncrypt = new MemoryStream();
using (CryptoStream csEncrypt = new CryptoStream(msEncrypt, encryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Write)) {
    using (StreamWriter swEncrypt = new StreamWriter(csEncrypt)) {
        swEncrypt.Write(plainText);
    }
}

return msEncrypt.ToArray();