Though I can agree somewhat with Teoman Soygul post about CRC/Hash there is one very important thing to note. Never encrypt the hash as this can make it easier to find the resulting key. Even without encrypting the hash you still gave them an easy way to test if they have successfully gained the correct password; however, let's assume that is already possible. Since I know what kind of data you encrypted, be it text, or serialized objects, or whatever, it's likely I can write code to recognize it.
That said, I've used derivations of the following code to encrypt/decrypt data:
static void Main()
{
byte[] test = Encrypt(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("Hello World!"), "My Product Name and/or whatever constant", "password");
Console.WriteLine(Convert.ToBase64String(test));
string plain = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(Decrypt(test, "My Product Name and/or whatever constant", "passwords"));
Console.WriteLine(plain);
}
public static byte[] Encrypt(byte[] data, string iv, string password)
{
using (RijndaelManaged m = new RijndaelManaged())
using (SHA256Managed h = new SHA256Managed())
{
m.KeySize = 256;
m.BlockSize = 256;
byte[] hash = h.ComputeHash(data);
byte[] salt = new byte[32];
new RNGCryptoServiceProvider().GetBytes(salt);
m.IV = h.ComputeHash(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(iv));
m.Key = new Rfc2898DeriveBytes(password, salt) { IterationCount = 10000 }.GetBytes(32);
using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
{
ms.Write(hash, 0, hash.Length);
ms.Write(salt, 0, salt.Length);
using (CryptoStream cs = new CryptoStream(ms, m.CreateEncryptor(), CryptoStreamMode.Write))
{
cs.Write(data, 0, data.Length);
cs.FlushFinalBlock();
return ms.ToArray();
}
}
}
}
public static byte[] Decrypt(byte[] data, string iv, string password)
{
using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(data, false))
using (RijndaelManaged m = new RijndaelManaged())
using (SHA256Managed h = new SHA256Managed())
{
try
{
m.KeySize = 256;
m.BlockSize = 256;
byte[] hash = new byte[32];
ms.Read(hash, 0, 32);
byte[] salt = new byte[32];
ms.Read(salt, 0, 32);
m.IV = h.ComputeHash(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(iv));
m.Key = new Rfc2898DeriveBytes(password, salt) { IterationCount = 10000 }.GetBytes(32);
using (MemoryStream result = new MemoryStream())
{
using (CryptoStream cs = new CryptoStream(ms, m.CreateDecryptor(), CryptoStreamMode.Read))
{
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
int len;
while ((len = cs.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)) > 0)
result.Write(buffer, 0, len);
}
byte[] final = result.ToArray();
if (Convert.ToBase64String(hash) != Convert.ToBase64String(h.ComputeHash(final)))
throw new UnauthorizedAccessException();
return final;
}
}
catch
{
//never leak the exception type...
throw new UnauthorizedAccessException();
}
}
}
