Tony,
There are many options here, but a simple solution is:
<code (VB.NET) >
Public Class Crypto
' TAKEN FROM MS KB Q317535
Public Shared Function EncryptTripleDES(ByVal sIn As String, ByVal sKey As
String) As String
Dim DES As New
System.Security.Cryptography.TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider
Dim hashMD5 As New System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider
' scramble the key
sKey = ScrambleKey(sKey)
' Compute the MD5 hash.
DES.Key =
hashMD5.ComputeHash(System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(sKey))
' Set the cipher mode.
DES.Mode = System.Security.Cryptography.CipherMode.ECB
' Create the encryptor.
Dim DESEncrypt As System.Security.Cryptography.ICryptoTransform =
DES.CreateEncryptor()
' Get a byte array of the string.
Dim Buffer As Byte() = System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(sIn)
' Transform and return the string.
Return Convert.ToBase64String(DESEncrypt.TransformFinalBlock(Buffer, 0,
Buffer.Length))
End Function
Public Shared Function DecryptTripleDES(ByVal sOut As String, ByVal sKey
As String) As String
Dim DES As New
System.Security.Cryptography.TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider
Dim hashMD5 As New System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider
' scramble the key
sKey = ScrambleKey(sKey)
' Compute the MD5 hash.
DES.Key =
hashMD5.ComputeHash(System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(sKey))
' Set the cipher mode.
DES.Mode = System.Security.Cryptography.CipherMode.ECB
' Create the decryptor.
Dim DESDecrypt As System.Security.Cryptography.ICryptoTransform =
DES.CreateDecryptor()
Dim Buffer As Byte() = Convert.FromBase64String(sOut)
' Transform and return the string.
Return
System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetString(DESDecrypt.TransformFinalBlock(Buf
fer, 0, Buffer.Length))
End Function
Private Shared Function ScrambleKey(ByVal v_strKey As String) As String
Dim sbKey As New System.Text.StringBuilder
Dim intPtr As Integer
For intPtr = 1 To v_strKey.Length
Dim intIn As Integer = v_strKey.Length - intPtr + 1
sbKey.Append(Mid(v_strKey, intIn, 1))
Next
Dim strKey As String = sbKey.ToString
Return sbKey.ToString
End Function
End Class
</code>
-Sam Matzen