AES/Rijndael Encryption

I’ve been pretty busy with work lately, but it has been very interesting. The past couple of days I’ve been working with the AES/Rijndael to encrypt sensitive user data in the application I’m currently working on. It has been pretty interesting and has proven to be quite a learning experience.

The main reason it has been a challenge is that some of this data that we’re encrypting needs to be decrypted and searched through for reports. We have already decided on using SQL Server Reporting Services (which I haven’t worked with before) to handle these reports, however there was the question of decrypting these fields through SQL Server. Luckily we should be able to create CLR User-Defined functions to handle this.

I have also spent some time cleaning up the solution. This particular project has been going on for the past year and a half (or so) and has had quite a few hands touching it. I went ahead and organized the projects in the solution and fixed the dependency problems that everyone had been just dealing with for the past year or so. I think taking care of these issues will make my life a lot easier in the long run.

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6 Responses to AES/Rijndael Encryption

  1. RyanTheRobot says:

    you need to get the gravatar plugin

  2. Rex Morgan says:

    Yeah, gravatar is pretty cool. I started to look into it and the theme I’m using is supporting the old plugin, but wordpress supports it out-of-the-box now. It will come in time :P

  3. Jason says:

    Is ryan making fun of this theme? I remember when I had this on my blog and he told me he liked it.

  4. Rex Morgan says:

    I know, what a d-bag ;)

  5. Lakshmanan says:

    Hi

    Nice artice. I am looking for some sample for encrypting in Flex and decrypting them in ASP.NET. I tried using as3Crypto library there are some issues. if you have any samples can you post it?

    Thanks

    Lakshmanan

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