ICryptoTransform.TransformFinalBlock vs ICryptoTransform.TransformBlock

Question

Hi

I am Learning cryptography in .net, why method 1 works while 2 fired argument exception. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2006394/symmetric-algorithm-exception for a complete code

1- ICryptoTransform.TransformFinalBlock

2- ICryptoTransform.TransformBlock

Thanks

Answer 1

You should be using a CryptoStream, which will automatically call the correct ICryptoTransform methods.

For example:

var stream = new MemoryStream();
using (var transform = symAlgo.CreateEncryptor())
using (var cryptoStream = new CryptoStream(stream, transform, CryptoStreamMode.Write))
using (var writer = new StreamWriter(cryptoStream))
    writer.Write(someString);

byte[] cipherBytes = stream.ToArray();