Having me know little about cryptography, I am trying to find the best approach to hash a user password in some vb.net winform application; then store it in online mysql db.
I found lots of posts about the topic but can't figure out which one is the best approach.
I reach this MSDN post but still can't be sure if I can use it.
I can't where to enter some random key, it is generated automatically by the function.
So my question is , is this a solid function for password hash? Any alternatives?
Thank you
The code:
Imports System
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Security.Cryptography
Class AesExample
Public Shared Sub Main()
Try
Dim original As String = "Here is some data to encrypt!"
' Create a new instance of the Aes
' class. This generates a new key and initialization
' vector (IV).
Using myAes As Aes = Aes.Create()
' Encrypt the string to an array of bytes.
Dim encrypted As Byte() = EncryptStringToBytes_Aes(original, myAes.Key, myAes.IV)
' Decrypt the bytes to a string.
Dim roundtrip As String = DecryptStringFromBytes_Aes(encrypted, myAes.Key, myAes.IV)
'Display the original data and the decrypted data.
Console.WriteLine("Original: {0}", original)
Console.WriteLine("Round Trip: {0}", roundtrip)
End Using
Catch e As Exception
Console.WriteLine("Error: {0}", e.Message)
End Try
End Sub 'Main
Shared Function EncryptStringToBytes_Aes(ByVal plainText As String, ByVal Key() As Byte, ByVal IV() As Byte) As Byte()
' Check arguments.
If plainText Is Nothing OrElse plainText.Length
