C# - Simple TripleDES Encryption with or without hashing

This class below enables simple encryption and decryption of text strings. It uses the TripleDES algorithms and you can chose weather to use MD5 hash against the key.
Simply change the value of the encryptionKey to whatever you want the key to be.


C# Source code

// <copyright file="EncryptionHelper.cs" company="GinkoSolutions.com">

// Copyright (c) 2011 All Right Reserved

// </copyright>

// <author>Sean Greasley</author>

// <email>sean@ginkosolutions.com</email>

// <summary>Enables simple TripleDES encryption with or without hashing</summary>

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Text;

using System.Web;

using System.Security.Cryptography;

/// <summary>

/// Enables simple TripleDES encryption with or without hashing

/// </summary>

public class EncryptionHelper

{

    /// <summary>

    /// Encryption key. Used to encrypt and decrypt.

    /// </summary>

    private static readonly string encryptionKey = "YOURSECRETKEY";

    public EncryptionHelper() {}

    /// <summary>

    /// Encrypt text string

    /// </summary>

    /// <param name="toEncrypt">The string of data to encrypt</param>

    /// <param name="useHashing">Weather hashing is used or not</param>

    /// <returns>An encrypted string</returns>

    public static string Encrypt(string toEncrypt, bool useHashing)

    {

        byte[] keyArray;

        byte[] toEncryptArray = UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(toEncrypt);

        // If hashing use get hashcode regards to your key

        if (useHashing)

        {

            MD5CryptoServiceProvider hashmd5 = new MD5CryptoServiceProvider();

            keyArray = hashmd5.ComputeHash(UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(encryptionKey));

            hashmd5.Clear();

        }

        else

            keyArray = UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(encryptionKey);

        // Set the secret key for the tripleDES algorithm

        TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider tdes = new TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider();

        tdes.Key = keyArray;

        tdes.Mode = CipherMode.ECB;

        tdes.Padding = PaddingMode.PKCS7;

        // Transform the specified region of bytes array to resultArray

        ICryptoTransform cTransform = tdes.CreateEncryptor();

        byte[] resultArray = cTransform.TransformFinalBlock(toEncryptArray, 0, toEncryptArray.Length);

        tdes.Clear();

        // Return the encrypted data into unreadable string format

        return Convert.ToBase64String(resultArray, 0, resultArray.Length);

    }

    /// <summary>

    /// Decrypts a text string

    /// </summary>

    /// <param name="cipherString">The encrypted string</param>

    /// <param name="useHashing">Weather hashing is used or not</param>

    /// <returns>Decrypted text string</returns>

    public static string Decrypt(string cipherString, bool useHashing)

    {

        byte[] keyArray;

        byte[] toEncryptArray = Convert.FromBase64String(cipherString.Replace(' ', '+'));

        if (useHashing)

        {

            // If hashing was used get the hash code with regards to your key

            MD5CryptoServiceProvider hashmd5 = new MD5CryptoServiceProvider();

            keyArray = hashmd5.ComputeHash(UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(encryptionKey));

            hashmd5.Clear();

        }

        else

        {

            // If hashing was not implemented get the byte code of the key

            keyArray = UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(encryptionKey);

        }

        // Set the secret key for the tripleDES algorithm

        TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider tdes = new TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider();

        tdes.Key = keyArray;

        tdes.Mode = CipherMode.ECB;

        tdes.Padding = PaddingMode.PKCS7;

        ICryptoTransform cTransform = tdes.CreateDecryptor();

        byte[] resultArray = cTransform.TransformFinalBlock(toEncryptArray, 0, toEncryptArray.Length);

        tdes.Clear();

        // Return the Clear decrypted TEXT

        return UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetString(resultArray);

    }

}