Good, secure encryption

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Good, secure encryption

Hi im thinking about developing a sort of File Transfer program and was wondering if i want as good encryption that i can get what should i use?

ill be developing this with c# so i got access to the .net lib :P having a certificate with me on my usb to access the server is no problem if that would increase the security!

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Look into tunneling your connection through SSL. It does all the hard work for you.

Andrew 2009-03-02 22:27:58

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The simplest built in way with the .NET Framework is probably to use the SslStream class which is built in. Example of usage here.

RM 2009-03-02 22:29:30

is there any way to encrypt a byte array without having to use a sslstream?

Petoj 2009-03-03 07:10:30

Sure. Many to choose from, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.security.cryptography.aspx

RM 2009-03-03 22:02:37

Example How To: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa308954(VS.71).aspx

RM 2009-03-03 22:05:53

You can wrap a stream around a regular array using System.IO.MemoryStream.

lidgren 2009-03-03 08:02:54

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