Encrypt and Decrypt Password using C# Crypto Class

Updated on September 23, 2015     Kisan Patel

This post will explain you how to ecrypt passwords or other sensitive data in C#.

Crypto class provides methods to generate hash values and encrypt passwords or other sensitive data. Crypto class defined in System.Web.Helpers namespace.

You use Crypto.HashPassword method to generate a hash value as shown in below code:

string hashedPassword = Crypto.HashPassword(password)

Now, you can use Crypto.VerifyHashedPassword method to determines whether the specified hashedPassword and password are a cryptographic match.

bool success = Crypto.VerifyHashedPassword(string hashedPassword, string password);

Here, Crypto.VerifyHashedPassword returns true if the hash value is a cryptographic match for the password; otherwise return false.