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XCrypt - Encryption and decryption class wrapper

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using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Security.Cryptography;

namespace Twofish_NET
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Summary description for Twofish encryption algorithm of which more information can be found at http://www.counterpane.com/twofish.html. 
	/// This is based on the MS cryptographic framework and can therefore be used in place of the RijndaelManaged classes
	/// provided by MS in System.Security.Cryptography and the other related classes
	/// </summary>
	public sealed class Twofish : SymmetricAlgorithm
	{
		/// <summary>
		/// This is the Twofish constructor.
		/// </summary>
		public Twofish()
		{
			this.LegalKeySizesValue = new KeySizes[]{new KeySizes(128,256,64)}; // this allows us to have 128,192,256 key sizes

			this.LegalBlockSizesValue = new KeySizes[]{new KeySizes(128,128,0)}; // this is in bits - typical of MS - always 16 bytes

			this.BlockSize = 128; // set this to 16 bytes we cannot have any other value
			this.KeySize = 128; // in bits - this can be changed to 128,192,256

			this.Padding = PaddingMode.Zeros; 

			this.Mode = CipherMode.ECB;

		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Creates an object that supports ICryptoTransform that can be used to encrypt data using the Twofish encryption algorithm.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="key">A byte array that contains a key. The length of this key should be equal to the KeySize property</param>
		/// <param name="iv">A byte array that contains an initialization vector. The length of this IV should be equal to the BlockSize property</param>
		public override ICryptoTransform CreateEncryptor(byte[] key, byte[] iv)
		{
			Key = key; // this appears to make a new copy

			if (Mode == CipherMode.CBC)
				IV = iv;
			
			return new TwofishEncryption(KeySize, ref KeyValue, ref IVValue, ModeValue, TwofishBase.EncryptionDirection.Encrypting);
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Creates an object that supports ICryptoTransform that can be used to decrypt data using the Twofish encryption algorithm.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="key">A byte array that contains a key. The length of this key should be equal to the KeySize property</param>
		/// <param name="iv">A byte array that contains an initialization vector. The length of this IV should be equal to the BlockSize property</param>
		public override ICryptoTransform CreateDecryptor(byte[] key, byte[] iv)
		{
			Key = key;

			if (Mode == CipherMode.CBC)
				IV = iv;

			return new TwofishEncryption(KeySize, ref KeyValue, ref IVValue, ModeValue, TwofishBase.EncryptionDirection.Decrypting);
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Generates a random initialization Vector (IV). 
		/// </summary>
		public override void GenerateIV()
		{
			IV = new byte[16]{0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0};
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Generates a random Key. This is only really useful in testing scenarios.
		/// </summary>
		public override void GenerateKey()
		{
			Key = new byte[KeySize/8];

			// set the array to all 0 - implement a random key generation mechanism later probably based on PRNG
			for (int i=Key.GetLowerBound(0);i<Key.GetUpperBound(0);i++)
			{
				Key[i]=0;
			}
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Override the Set method on this property so that we only support CBC and EBC
		/// </summary>
		public override CipherMode Mode
		{
			set
			{
				switch (value)
				{
					case CipherMode.CBC:
						break;
					case CipherMode.ECB:
						break;
					default:
						throw (new CryptographicException("Specified CipherMode is not supported."));
				}
				this.ModeValue = value;
			}
		}

	}
}

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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar is from Chennai, India who has been in the programming career since 1994, when he was 15 years old. He has his Bachelors of Engineering (in Computer Science and Engineering) from Vellore Engineering College. He also has a MBA in Systems from Alagappa University, Karaikudi, India.
He started his programming career with GWBasic and then in his college was involved in developing programs in Fortran, Cobol, C++. He has been developing in Microsoft technologies like ASP, SQLServer 2000.
His current focus is ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, PHP, SQL Server and MySQL. In his past-time, he listens to polite Carnatic Music. But the big question is that with his current Todolist backlog, does he get some past time?

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