Strategy to distribute secure database connection strings in an enterprise environment

using System;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using System.Security.Cryptography;

namespace EnterpriseConnString
{
	// Class to encrypt and decrypt strings using the KeyWord and CryptoAPI

	// I am using DES encryption to demonstrate to encypt and decrypt conn strings

	// Customize the class using the required strength of cryptography

	public class Cypher
	{
		// initialization vector, this acts like out private key !
		static byte[] DESIV = {0x00, 0x12, 0x34, 0x56, 0xAA, 0x55, 0xFF, 0x56};

		static Cypher()
		{
		}

		// Encrypt input string using DES algorithm
		internal static byte[] Encrypt(string keyword, string input)
		{
			// in the next 3 lines I am taking care of padding the string to
			// an integral length of 8, otherwise DES will do padding
			byte[] readBytes = new byte[input.Length + input.Length % 8];
			for (int i=0; i<readBytes.Length; i++)
				readBytes[i] = (i<input.Length) ? (byte)input[i] : (byte)0x00;

			MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream();

			DESCryptoServiceProvider DESProvider = new DESCryptoServiceProvider();
			DESProvider.Key = ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(keyword);
			DESProvider.IV = DESIV;

			ICryptoTransform DESEncrypt = DESProvider.CreateEncryptor();
			CryptoStream cryptoStream = new CryptoStream(memoryStream, 
								DESEncrypt, CryptoStreamMode.Write);
			
			cryptoStream.Write(readBytes, 0, readBytes.Length);
			cryptoStream.FlushFinalBlock();
			memoryStream.Close();
			cryptoStream.Close();
			return memoryStream.ToArray();
		}

		// Decrypt input byte array using DES algorithm
		internal static string Decrypt(string keyword, byte[] input)
		{
			MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream(input);

			DESCryptoServiceProvider DESProvider = new DESCryptoServiceProvider();
			ICryptoTransform DESDecrypt= DESProvider.CreateDecryptor(
				ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(keyword), DESIV);

			CryptoStream cryptoStream = new CryptoStream(memoryStream,
												DESDecrypt, CryptoStreamMode.Read);
			cryptoStream.Read(input, 0,input.Length);
			cryptoStream.Close();
			memoryStream.Close();

			ASCIIEncoding ac = new ASCIIEncoding();
			return ac.GetString(memoryStream.ToArray());
		}
	}
}