Leveraging ASP.NET machineKey For Encrypting My Own Data

Question

I have some data I want to encrypt in an ASP.NET MVC application to prevent users from tampering with it. I can use the Cryptography classes to do the actual encryption/decrypt

Answer 1

You might be able to reuse the MembershipProvider.EncryptPassword method, which in turn uses some (unfortunately internal) encryption methods of the MachineKeySection class.