The Ignite.Cryptography class requires the Ignite.Binary class from https://github.com/RX-J/Ignite.Binary/blob/main/Binary.cs

Important: The functions "Encrypt" and "Decrypt" both use the SHA256 algorithm to generate a key with 32 bytes from any password, if you store hashed passwords you should use a hashing algorithm other than SHA256 or use a salt! It should also be mentioned that the functionality has been kept compact and further security measures may need to be taken!

The Encrypt function accepts any primitive data type and returns a byte[] or a string, while the Decrypt function only accepts a byte[] or a string and returns any primitive data type. These primitive data types are:

• byte
• ushort
• uint
• ulong

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• sbyte
• short
• int
• long

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• nint
• nuint

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• float
• double
• decimal

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• bool
• char
• string

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However, encryption and decryption only works reliably if the encrypted and decrypted data types are the same, e.g. a string decrypted as a string, or an int decrypted as an int.

To call the Encrypt function, you have these options:

var encrypt = "Hello World!";

var encrypted = Cryptography.Encrypt<byte[]>("Password", encrypt); // Encrypts the string "Hello World!" using the password "Password" and returns a byte array
var encrypted = Cryptography.Encrypt<string>("Password", encrypt); // Encrypts the string "Hello World!" using the password "Password" and returns a string

Cryptography.Encrypt("Password", encrypt, out byte[] encrypted); // Encrypts the string "Hello World!" using the password "Password" and outputs the result to a byte array
Cryptography.Encrypt("Password", encrypt, out string encrypted); // Encrypts the string "Hello World!" using the password "Password" and outputs the result to a string

var encrypted = new byte[100];
Cryptography.Encrypt(ref encrypted, "Password", encrypt); // Encrypts the string "Hello World!" using the password "Password" and stores the result in a predefined byte array

var encrypted = "";
Cryptography.Encrypt(ref encrypted, "Password", encrypt); // Encrypts the string "Hello World!" using the password "Password" and stores the result in a predefined string

To call the Decrypt function, you have these options:

var decrypt = Cryptography.Encrypt<byte[]>("Password", "Hello World!");

var decrypted = Cryptography.Decrypt<TYPE>("Password", decrypt); // Decrypts the data using the password "Password" and returns the result as the specified type

Cryptography.Decrypt("Password", decrypt, out TYPE decrypted); // Decrypts the data using the password "Password" and outputs the result to a variable of the specified type

TYPE decrypted;
Cryptography.Decrypt(ref decrypted, "Password", decrypt); // Decrypts the data using the password "Password" and stores the result in a predefined variable of the specified type