## Version 2 A more secure password should contain a cost factor. Here is the complete example code: ### PHP ```php <?php $plaintext = 'My secret message 1234'; $password = '3sc3RLrpd17'; $method = 'aes-256-cbc'; $key = password_hash($password, PASSWORD_BCRYPT, ['cost' => 12]); echo "Key:" . $key . "\n"; // IV must be exact 16 chars (128 bit) $iv = chr(0x0) . chr(0x0) . chr(0x0) . chr(0x0) . chr(0x0) . chr(0x0) . chr(0x0) . chr(0x0) . chr(0x0) . chr(0x0) . chr(0x0) . chr(0x0) . chr(0x0) . chr(0x0) . chr(0x0) . chr(0x0); // av3DYGLkwBsErphcyYp+imUW4QKs19hUnFyyYcXwURU= $encrypted = base64_encode(openssl_encrypt($plaintext, $method, $key, OPENSSL_RAW_DATA, $iv)); // My secret message 1234 $decrypted = openssl_decrypt(base64_decode($encrypted), $method, $key, OPENSSL_RAW_DATA, $iv); echo 'plaintext=' . $plaintext . "\n"; echo 'cipher=' . $method . "\n"; echo 'encrypted to: ' . $encrypted . "\n"; echo 'decrypted to: ' . $decrypted . "\n\n"; ``` ### C# In C# you have to install the [BCrypt-Official package](https://www.nuget.org/packages/BCrypt-Official/) and generate a hash password like this: ```csharp using System.Security.Cryptography; using System.IO; using System.Text; using System; public string EncryptString(string plainText, byte[] key, byte[] iv) { // Instantiate a new Aes object to perform string symmetric encryption Aes encryptor = Aes.Create(); encryptor.Mode = CipherMode.CBC; //encryptor.KeySize = 256; //encryptor.BlockSize = 128; //encryptor.Padding = PaddingMode.Zeros; // Set key and IV encryptor.Key = key.Take(32).ToArray(); encryptor.IV = iv; // Instantiate a new MemoryStream object to contain the encrypted bytes MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream(); // Instantiate a new encryptor from our Aes object ICryptoTransform aesEncryptor = encryptor.CreateEncryptor(); // Instantiate a new CryptoStream object to process the data and write it to the // memory stream CryptoStream cryptoStream = new CryptoStream(memoryStream, aesEncryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Write); // Convert the plainText string into a byte array byte[] plainBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(plainText); // Encrypt the input plaintext string cryptoStream.Write(plainBytes, 0, plainBytes.Length); // Complete the encryption process cryptoStream.FlushFinalBlock(); // Convert the encrypted data from a MemoryStream to a byte array byte[] cipherBytes = memoryStream.ToArray(); // Close both the MemoryStream and the CryptoStream memoryStream.Close(); cryptoStream.Close(); // Convert the encrypted byte array to a base64 encoded string string cipherText = Convert.ToBase64String(cipherBytes, 0, cipherBytes.Length); // Return the encrypted data as a string return cipherText; } public string DecryptString(string cipherText, byte[] key, byte[] iv) { // Instantiate a new Aes object to perform string symmetric encryption Aes encryptor = Aes.Create(); encryptor.Mode = CipherMode.CBC; //encryptor.KeySize = 256; //encryptor.BlockSize = 128; //encryptor.Padding = PaddingMode.Zeros; // Set key and IV encryptor.Key = key.Take(32).ToArray(); encryptor.IV = iv; // Instantiate a new MemoryStream object to contain the encrypted bytes MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream(); // Instantiate a new encryptor from our Aes object ICryptoTransform aesDecryptor = encryptor.CreateDecryptor(); // Instantiate a new CryptoStream object to process the data and write it to the // memory stream CryptoStream cryptoStream = new CryptoStream(memoryStream, aesDecryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Write); // Will contain decrypted plaintext string plainText = String.Empty; try { // Convert the ciphertext string into a byte array byte[] cipherBytes = Convert.FromBase64String(cipherText); // Decrypt the input ciphertext string cryptoStream.Write(cipherBytes, 0, cipherBytes.Length); // Complete the decryption process cryptoStream.FlushFinalBlock(); // Convert the decrypted data from a MemoryStream to a byte array byte[] plainBytes = memoryStream.ToArray(); // Convert the decrypted byte array to string plainText = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(plainBytes, 0, plainBytes.Length); } finally { // Close both the MemoryStream and the CryptoStream memoryStream.Close(); cryptoStream.Close(); } // Return the decrypted data as a string return plainText; } ``` ### Usage ```csharp string message = "My secret message 1234"; string password = "3sc3RLrpd17"; // hash the password with BCrypt string hashedPassword = BCrypt.Net.BCrypt.HashPassword(password, 12); // Convert hashed password to array byte[] key = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(hashedPassword); // Create secret IV byte[] iv = new byte[16] { 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0 }; string encrypted = this.EncryptString(message, key, iv); string decrypted = this.DecryptString(encrypted, key, iv); Console.WriteLine(encrypted); Console.WriteLine(decrypted); ```