C# encrypt and decrypt generic List

Asked Feb 02 '16 at 08:07

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I have been using an answer I found to encrypt and decrypt strings

 public class Crypto 

 public static string EncryptStringAES(string plainText, string sharedSecret)

Encrypt and decrypt a string

However, now I wish to encrypt and decrypt generic List

Example:

var fileName = @"C:\temp\troublecall.txt";
FileStream s = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Create);
List<TroubleCall> tcs = new List<TroubleCall>();

foreach (var tc in troubleCalls)
{
    tcs.Add(tc);
}

BinaryFormatter f = new BinaryFormatter();

f.Serialize(s, tcs);
s.Close();

So I cannot use the existing method in that crypto class to encrypt a generic list

So It seems that I could try to encrypt in the loop somehow, right? Is is possible to just encrypt the entire finished List as an object ?

edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

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asked Feb 02 '16 at 08:07

It looks complicated – Feb 02 '16 at 22:51
Serialize the list, then encrypt the encoded list. Decrypt and deserialize to retrieve the original. For large lists you may want to serialize and encrypt a stream. – Maarten Bodewes Feb 03 '16 at 00:40
Thank you both for your responses – Feb 03 '16 at 16:55

C# encrypt and decrypt generic List

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