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

DES is pretty much obsolete at this point. Here is the Wikipedia. If you are changing the key a lot, it might be adequate, but if you are relying on a key for a while, AES seems like a better choice.

Of course it is a question of how much protection you need. But AES is build right in there too.

I have used AES for small strings, and it works nice.

What I have read about TripleDES is that since DES is easily crackable, TripleDES is still not substantial.