What's the best way to encrypt short strings in .NET?

Question

My boss wants me to encrypt some information used during data transfer. The individual strings to be encrypted are between eight and twenty characters long. A single passwor

Answer 1

TripleDes ?

You can use the System.Security.Cryptography.TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider

Small amount of code to encrypy/decrypt... does exactly what it says on the tin :)