I looked up msdn and other resources on how to do this but i came up with no clear solutions. This is the best i found http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shawnfa/archive/2004/04/14/gen
Microsoft has a page up with sample code using PBKDF2 for anyone using .Net Core:
Hash passwords in ASP.NET Core
From the article:
using System;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Cryptography.KeyDerivation;
public class Program
{
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
Console.Write("Enter a password: ");
string password = Console.ReadLine();
// generate a 128-bit salt using a secure PRNG
byte[] salt = new byte[128 / 8];
using (var rng = RandomNumberGenerator.Create())
{
rng.GetBytes(salt);
}
Console.WriteLine($"Salt: {Convert.ToBase64String(salt)}");
// derive a 256-bit subkey (use HMACSHA1 with 10,000 iterations)
string hashed = Convert.ToBase64String(KeyDerivation.Pbkdf2(
password: password,
salt: salt,
prf: KeyDerivationPrf.HMACSHA1,
iterationCount: 10000,
numBytesRequested: 256 / 8));
Console.WriteLine($"Hashed: {hashed}");
}
}
/*
* SAMPLE OUTPUT
*
* Enter a password: Xtw9NMgx
* Salt: NZsP6NnmfBuYeJrrAKNuVQ==
* Hashed: /OOoOer10+tGwTRDTrQSoeCxVTFr6dtYly7d0cPxIak=
*/