csharp_symmetric_file_encryption_password_based.md

title	C# Symmetric Password Based File Encryption
keywords	sample
summary	Password based symmetric file encryption in C#
permalink	csharp_symmetric_file_encryption_password_based.html
folder	C#
references	url description https://ourcodeworld.com/articles/read/471/how-to-encrypt-and-decrypt-files-using-the-aes-encryption-algorithm-in-c-sharp How to encrypt and decrypt files using the AES encryption algorithm in C# url description https://cryptography.io/en/latest/hazmat/primitives/key-derivation-functions/#cryptography.hazmat.primitives.kdf.pbkdf2.PBKDF2HMAC Cryptography Password Based Key Derivation Function 2 Documentation
authors	name url Nico Rusam https://github.com/romanicus
current_reviews
last_updated	2018-07-24
tags	C# CSharp dotnet core .net core AES Rfc2898DeriveBytes PKCS7 Salt Cipher Block Chaining

Use cases

• Password based encryption of a file
• Previously shared common secret (password)

Used .Net version

• .Net Core 2.1

Example Code for C# based asymmetric key storage

{% include_relative csharp_cryptoexamples/src/ExampleFileEncryption.cs %}

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