String Encryption with Visual Basic .NET

If you have searched the various .NET help files, you may have encountered encryption examples that always deal with encrypting the contents of a file. This isn't very useful when you need to encrypt something that isn't already contained within a file. In this article, author Brian Patterson covers many of the encryption classes provided in the .NET Framework. Once you've got a grasp on how to use these algorithms, Patterson wraps things up by guiding you through a sample application that will encrypt information before saving it to either a SQL Server or Oracle database server.