PBKDF2 in Bouncy Castle C#

Question

I\'ve being messing around the C# Bouncy Castle API to find how to do a PBKDF2 key derivation.

I am really clueless right now.

I tried reading through the Pk

Answer 1

I just had this problem myself, and found a more direct approach. As of at least Bouncy Castle 1.7 you can do it like this (in VB using Org.BouncyCastle.Crypto):

Dim bcKeyDer As New Generators.Pkcs5S2ParametersGenerator()
bcKeyDer.Init(password, salt, keyIterations)
Dim bcparam As Parameters.KeyParameter = bcKeyDer.GenerateDerivedParameters("aes256", 256)
Dim key1() As Byte = bcparam.GetKey()

I have tested this against .Net's System.Security.Cryptography, and it works!