Simple insecure two-way data “obfuscation”?

Question

I\'m looking for very simple obfuscation (like encrypt and decrypt but not necessarily secure) functionality for some data. It\'s not mission critical. I need something to k

Answer 1

A variant of Marks (excellent) answer

• Add "using"s
• Make the class IDisposable
• Remove the URL encoding code to make the example simpler.
• Add a simple test fixture to demonstrate usage

Hope this helps

[TestFixture]
public class RijndaelHelperTests
{
    [Test]
    public void UseCase()
    {
        //These two values should not be hard coded in your code.
        byte[] key = {251, 9, 67, 117, 237, 158, 138, 150, 255, 97, 103, 128, 183, 65, 76, 161, 7, 79, 244, 225, 146, 180, 51, 123, 118, 167, 45, 10, 184, 181, 202, 190};
        byte[] vector = {214, 11, 221, 108, 210, 71, 14, 15, 151, 57, 241, 174, 177, 142, 115, 137};

        using (var rijndaelHelper = new RijndaelHelper(key, vector))
        {
            var encrypt = rijndaelHelper.Encrypt("StringToEncrypt");
            var decrypt = rijndaelHelper.Decrypt(encrypt);
            Assert.AreEqual("StringToEncrypt", decrypt);
        }
    }
}

public class RijndaelHelper : IDisposable
{
    Rijndael rijndael;
    UTF8Encoding encoding;

    public RijndaelHelper(byte[] key, byte[] vector)
    {
        encoding = new UTF8Encoding();
        rijndael = Rijndael.Create();
        rijndael.Key = key;
        rijndael.IV = vector;
    }

    public byte[] Encrypt(string valueToEncrypt)
    {
        var bytes = encoding.GetBytes(valueToEncrypt);
        using (var encryptor = rijndael.CreateEncryptor())
        using (var stream = new MemoryStream())
        using (var crypto = new CryptoStream(stream, encryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Write))
        {
            crypto.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
            crypto.FlushFinalBlock();
            stream.Position = 0;
            var encrypted = new byte[stream.Length];
            stream.Read(encrypted, 0, encrypted.Length);
            return encrypted;
        }
    }

    public string Decrypt(byte[] encryptedValue)
    {
        using (var decryptor = rijndael.CreateDecryptor())
        using (var stream = new MemoryStream())
        using (var crypto = new CryptoStream(stream, decryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Write))
        {
            crypto.Write(encryptedValue, 0, encryptedValue.Length);
            crypto.FlushFinalBlock();
            stream.Position = 0;
            var decryptedBytes = new Byte[stream.Length];
            stream.Read(decryptedBytes, 0, decryptedBytes.Length);
            return encoding.GetString(decryptedBytes);
        }
    }

    public void Dispose()
    {
        if (rijndael != null)
        {
            rijndael.Dispose();
        }
    }
}