| private static GetDataEncryptionKey ( ) : string | ||
| return | string | |
/// <summary>
/// Tries to encrypt the string. Use this in situations where you might just want to skip encryption if it doesn't work.
/// You should use EncryptString in most cases.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="plainText">The plain text.</param>
/// <param name="cypherText">The cypher text.</param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static bool TryEncryptString(string plainText, out string cypherText)
{
cypherText = null;
string encryptionKey = Encryption.GetDataEncryptionKey();
// non-web apps might not have the DataEncryptionKey, so check that first since it could happen quite a bit
if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(encryptionKey))
{
return(false);
}
else
{
try
{
cypherText = EncryptString(plainText, encryptionKey);
return(true);
}
catch
{
// intentionally ignore exception since we are a try method
return(false);
}
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Encrypt the given string using AES. The string can be decrypted using
/// DecryptString(). The sharedSecret parameters must match.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="plainText">The text to encrypt.</param>
public static string EncryptString(string plainText)
{
string dataEncryptionKey = Encryption.GetDataEncryptionKey();
return(EncryptString(plainText, dataEncryptionKey));
}
