Password encryption

Question

I am creating a login screen for an application in C#. In my login screen I am reading the username and password from the database and checking whether the entered username

Answer 1

You can encrypt the passwords in many ways.

One of the way is using the MD5 encryption. Let me show you one of the encryption method that I am using.

#region Encrypt
public string Encrypt(string simpletext, string keys)
{
    try
    {
        XCryptEngine xe = new XCryptEngine();

        xe.Algorithm = XCrypt.XCryptEngine.AlgorithmType.DES; //DES = Data Encryption Standard

        string cipher = xe.Encrypt(simpletext, keys);
        if (cipher != null)
            return (cipher);
        else
            return null;
    }

    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        throw ex;
    }
}
#endregion

#region Decrypt
public string Decrypt(string simpletext, string keys)
{
    try
    {
        XCryptEngine xe = new XCryptEngine();

        xe.Algorithm = XCrypt.XCryptEngine.AlgorithmType.DES;

        //Console.WriteLine(xe.Decrypt(simpletext, keys));
        simpletext = simpletext.Replace(" ", "+");
        string cipertext = xe.Decrypt(simpletext, keys);
        if (cipertext != null)
            return (cipertext);
        else
            return null;
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        throw ex;
    }
}
#endregion

you need to use reference for XCrypt to use this.

using XCrypt;