DataProtector Class

This class uses the .NET Core Data Protection APIs to encrypt values. This is the same class used for encryption of authentication data, cookies etc. and this class provides an easy way to encode strings and return encoded strings that can be use for manual cookie processing.

This class is a singleton so there can only be one unique instance per application.

System.Object
Westwind.AspNetCore.Security.DataProtector

Class Members

Member		Description
	Constructor
	GetDataProtector	Internally called to create a Data Protector instance public IDataProtector GetDataProtector(string uniqueIdentifier, bool force)
	Protect	Encrypts a string and returns it as a binary BinHex or Base64 string public string Protect(string dataToProtect, DataProtectionStringEncodingModes stringEncodingMode)
	UnProtect	Decrypts a previously protected strings from BinHex or Base64 binary dataand returns the orignal string data. public string UnProtect(string protectedStringData, DataProtectionStringEncodingModes stringEncodingMode)
	UniqueIdentifier	A unique identifier for this data

Namespace: Westwind.AspNetCore.Security

Assembly: Westwind.AspNetCore.dll