Recently I needed to find a simple to way to encrypt and decrypt a file of any type (I actually needed to encrypt image and text files) and any size. I found hundreds of examples on the web, many of which just plain didn't work, or threw errors on certain file types.
Eventually I put together the following two methods using the Rijndael encryption algorithm, they simply require that you pass them the full path to the original and target files. They both require the System.Security, System.Security.Cryptography, System.Runtime.InteropServices and System.Text.RegularExpressions namespaces.
Hope they are some use to someone...
///<summary>
/// Steve Lydford - 12/05/2008.
///
/// Encrypts a file using Rijndael algorithm.
///</summary>
///<param name="inputFile"></param>
///<param name="outputFile"></param>
private void EncryptFile(string inputFile, string outputFile)
{
try
{
string password = @"myKey123"; // Your Key Here
UnicodeEncoding UE = new UnicodeEncoding();
byte[] key = UE.GetBytes(password);
string cryptFile = outputFile;
FileStream fsCrypt = new FileStream(cryptFile, FileMode.Create);
RijndaelManaged RMCrypto = new RijndaelManaged();
CryptoStream cs = new CryptoStream(fsCrypt,
RMCrypto.CreateEncryptor(key, key),
CryptoStreamMode.Write);
FileStream fsIn = new FileStream(inputFile, FileMode.Open);
int data;
while ((data = fsIn.ReadByte()) != -1)
cs.WriteByte((byte)data);
fsIn.Close();
cs.Close();
fsCrypt.Close();
}
catch
{
MessageBox.Show("Encryption failed!", "Error");
}
}
///<summary>
/// Steve Lydford - 12/05/2008.
///
/// Decrypts a file using Rijndael algorithm.
///</summary>
///<param name="inputFile"></param>
///<param name="outputFile"></param>
private void DecryptFile(string inputFile, string outputFile)
{
{
string password = @"myKey123"; // Your Key Here
UnicodeEncoding UE = new UnicodeEncoding();
byte[] key = UE.GetBytes(password);
FileStream fsCrypt = new FileStream(inputFile, FileMode.Open);
RijndaelManaged RMCrypto = new RijndaelManaged();
CryptoStream cs = new CryptoStream(fsCrypt,
RMCrypto.CreateDecryptor(key, key),
CryptoStreamMode.Read);
FileStream fsOut = new FileStream(outputFile, FileMode.Create);
int data;
while ((data = cs.ReadByte()) != -1)
fsOut.WriteByte((byte)data);
fsOut.Close();
cs.Close();
fsCrypt.Close();
}
}