Secure Url

Asp.net 2.0 has been released, but Asp.net still does not have any built-in support for passing querystring in encrypted text. The following class will give you the support to pass querystring in encrypted rather than plain. 

Usage: 

//WebForm1.aspx, From the sender
SecureUrl url = new SecureUrl("WebForm2.aspx?Key1=Value1&Key2=Value2");// WebForm2.aspx?param=HrxR96wU%2foN8VhElKlT32taPZLQzADf1
Response.Redirect(url.ToString());

//WebForm2.aspx, To Receiver
SecureUrl url = new SecureUrl(Request.Url.PathAndQuery);
string Key1Value = url["Key1"];
string Key2Value = url["Key2"];

SecureUrl:

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Specialized;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.Web;

public sealed class SecureUrl
{
private const string ENCRYPTED_KEY_NAME = "param";
private const string RETURN_URL = "returnUrl";
private const string RETURN_PARAM = "returnParam";

//DES Key size is 64 bit or 8 byte  
private static readonly byte\[\] Key = new byte\[\] {33, 93, 171, 1, 85, 23, 231, 145};  

private string \_pageUrl = string.Empty;  
private StringDictionary \_queryString = new StringDictionary();  

public string this\[string key\]  
{  
    \[DebuggerStepThrough()\]  
    get  
    {  
        if (\_queryString.ContainsKey(key.ToLower()))  
        {  
            return \_queryString\[key\];  
        }  

        return string.Empty;  
    }  
    \[DebuggerStepThrough()\]  
    set  
    {  
        if ((value != null) && (value.Trim().Length > 0))  
        {  
            \_queryString\[key.ToLower()\] = value;  
        }  
        else  
        {  
            \_queryString.Remove(key.ToLower());  
        }  
    }  
}  

public string ReturnUrl  
{  
    \[DebuggerStepThrough()\]  
    get  
    {  
        if (\_queryString.ContainsKey(RETURN\_URL))  
        {  
            return \_queryString\[RETURN\_URL\];  
        }  

        return string.Empty;  
    }  
    \[DebuggerStepThrough()\]  
    set  
    {  
        if ((value != null) && (value.Trim().Length > 0))  
        {  
            \_queryString\[RETURN\_URL\] = value;  
        }  
        else  
        {  
            \_queryString.Remove(RETURN\_URL);  
        }  
    }  
}  

public string ReturnParameters  
{  
    \[DebuggerStepThrough()\]  
    get  
    {  
        if (\_queryString.ContainsKey(RETURN\_PARAM))  
        {  
            return \_queryString\[RETURN\_PARAM\];  
        }  

        return string.Empty;  
    }  
    \[DebuggerStepThrough()\]  
    set  
    {  
        if ((value != null) && (value.Trim().Length > 0))  
        {  
            \_queryString\[RETURN\_PARAM\] = value;  
              
        }  
        else  
        {  
            \_queryString.Remove(RETURN\_PARAM);  
        }  
    }  
}  

public SecureUrl(string fullUrl)  
{  
    if (fullUrl.IndexOf('?') > 0)  
    {  
        string\[\] urlAndQueryString = fullUrl.Split('?');  
        \_pageUrl = urlAndQueryString\[0\];  

        if (urlAndQueryString.Length > 1)  
        {  
            Parse(urlAndQueryString\[1\]);  
        }  
    }  
    else  
    {  
        \_pageUrl = fullUrl;  
    }  
}  

public SecureUrl(string url,   
string queryString)  
{  
    \_pageUrl = url;  
    Parse(queryString);  
}  

\[DebuggerStepThrough()\]  
public void Clear()  
{  
    \_queryString.Clear();  
}  

\[DebuggerStepThrough()\]  
public bool Contains(string key)  
{  
    return \_queryString.ContainsKey(key.ToLower());  
}  

\[DebuggerStepThrough()\]  
public void Remove(string key)  
{  
    \_queryString.Remove(key);  
}  

\[DebuggerStepThrough()\]  
public override string ToString()  
{  
    return ToString(false);  
}  

\[DebuggerStepThrough()\]  
public string ToString(bool unicode)  
{  
    StringBuilder queryString = new StringBuilder();  

    foreach(DictionaryEntry entry in \_queryString)  
    {  
        queryString.Append(entry.Key.ToString().ToLower());  
        queryString.Append('=');  
        queryString.Append(HttpUtility.UrlEncode(entry.Value.ToString()));  
        queryString.Append('&');  
    }  

    if (queryString.Length > 0)  
    {  
        //Remove the last &  
        queryString.Remove(queryString.Length - 1, 1);  
    }  

    string encryptedQuery = Encrypt(queryString.ToString());  

    string encodedQuery = HttpUtility.UrlEncode(encryptedQuery);  

    if (unicode)  
    {  
        //Required if we are passing it to JavaScript  
        encodedQuery = HttpUtility.UrlEncodeUnicode(encodedQuery);  
    }  

    string result = string.Empty;  

    if (encodedQuery.Length > 0)  
    {  
        result = \_pageUrl + "?" + ENCRYPTED\_KEY\_NAME + "=" + encodedQuery;  
    }  
    else  
    {  
        result = \_pageUrl;  
    }  

    return result;  
}  

\[DebuggerStepThrough()\]  
private void Parse(string queryString)  
{  
    string\[\] pairs = queryString.Split('&');  

    if ((pairs != null) && (pairs.Length > 0))  
    {  
        for(int i = 0; i < pairs.Length; i++)  
        {  
            string\[\] pair = pairs\[i\].Split('=');  
            string key = pair\[0\];  
            string value = pair\[1\];  

            value = HttpUtility.UrlDecode(value);  

            if (string.Compare(key, ENCRYPTED\_KEY\_NAME, true) == 0)  
            {  
                if (value.Length > 0)  
                {  
                    string decryptedString = HttpUtility.UrlDecode(Decrypt(value));  

                    string\[\] keyAndValues = decryptedString.Split('&');  

                    if ((keyAndValues != null) && (keyAndValues.Length > 0))  
                    {  
                        for(int j = 0; j < keyAndValues.Length; j++)  
                        {  
                            string\[\] keyAndValue = keyAndValues\[j\].Split('=');  

                            if ((keyAndValue != null) && (keyAndValue.Length == 2))  
                            {  
                                \_queryString.Add(keyAndValue\[0\].ToLower(), keyAndValue\[1\]);  
                            }  
                        }  
                    }  
                }  
            }  
            else  
            {  
                \_queryString.Add(key.ToLower(), value);  
            }  
        }  
    }  
}  

\[DebuggerStepThrough()\]  
private static string Encrypt(string plain)  
{  
    if ((plain == null) || (plain.Length == 0))  
    {  
        return null;  
    }  

    using(SymmetricAlgorithm crypto = CreateCrypto())  
    {  
        return System.Convert.ToBase64String(Read(crypto.CreateEncryptor(), Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(plain)));  
    }  
}  

\[DebuggerStepThrough()\]  
private static string Decrypt(string cipher)  
{  
    if ((cipher == null) || (cipher.Length == 0))  
    {  
        return null;  
    }  

    using(SymmetricAlgorithm crypto = CreateCrypto())  
    {  
        return Encoding.ASCII.GetString(Read(crypto.CreateDecryptor(), System.Convert.FromBase64String(cipher)));  
    }  
}  

\[DebuggerStepThrough()\]  
private static SymmetricAlgorithm CreateCrypto()  
{  
    //Using DES as it is the fastest among the others  
    SymmetricAlgorithm crypto = new DESCryptoServiceProvider();  

    crypto.Key = Key;  
    crypto.IV = new byte\[crypto.IV.Length\];  

    return crypto;  
}  

\[DebuggerStepThrough()\]  
private static byte\[\] Read(ICryptoTransform transformer,  
byte\[\] data)  
{  
    using(MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())  
    {  
        using(CryptoStream cs = new CryptoStream(ms, transformer, CryptoStreamMode.Write))  
        {  
            cs.Write(data, 0, data.Length);  
            cs.FlushFinalBlock();  

            return  ms.ToArray();  
        }  
    }  
}  

}

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