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

You could just use RSA encryption, since these are short strings, which will make key exchange simpler.

How much you can encrypt with RSA is based on the key length.

I am a fan of the rsa library from bouncy castle.