AES encryption and decryption in .NET

AES essentials

Start your class like this:

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.Text;

namespace Utils
{
 public static class EncryptionHelper
 {
    static private byte[] key = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14,
                                            15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24};
    static private byte[] iv16Bit = { 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16 };

AES Encryption

Add the following method for encrypting with AES:

public static string AesEncryption(string dataToEncrypt)
{
   var bytes = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(dataToEncrypt);
   using (var aes = new AesCryptoServiceProvider())
   {
    using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
    using (var encryptor = aes.CreateEncryptor(key, iv16Bit))
    using (var cs = new CryptoStream(ms, encryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Write))
    {
     cs.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
     cs.FlushFinalBlock();
     var cipher = ms.ToArray();
     return Convert.ToBase64String(cipher);
    }
   }
}

AES Decryption

The next method will allow decryption of your data

public static string AesDecryption(string dataToDecrypt)
{
   var bytes = Convert.FromBase64String(dataToDecrypt);
   using (var aes = new AesCryptoServiceProvider())
   {
    using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
    using (var decryptor = aes.CreateDecryptor(key, iv16Bit))
    using (var cs = new CryptoStream(ms, decryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Write))
    {
     cs.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
     cs.FlushFinalBlock();
     var cipher = ms.ToArray();
     return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(cipher);
    }
   }
}