PasswordDeriveBytes vs Rfc2898DeriveBytes, Obsolete but way faster

Question

I\'m working on a encryption functionality based on classes inherited from SymmetricAlgorithm such as TripleDes, DES, etc.

Basically there\'re two options to generate co

Answer 1

This blogpost talks about the differences between the two: http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnfa/archive/2004/04/14/generating-a-key-from-a-password.aspx