Saving a Dictionary in C# - Serialization?

Question

I am writing a C# application that needs to read about 130,000 (String, Int32) pairs at startup to a Dictionary. The pairs are stored in a .txt file, and are thus easily mod

Answer 1

Well, using a BinaryFormatter isn't really a safe way to store the pairs, as you can write a very simple program to deserialize it (after, say, running reflector on your code to get the type)

How about encrypting the txt? With something like this for example ? (for maximum performance, try without compression)