Question

I have an encryption function that encrypts strings to use as file names.
Problem is that a lot of the encrypted strings contain characters that arn’t allowed in a filename in windows like / or \ …

Is there some way I can encrypt the filenames (or atleast make them not directly readable by the user until they are decrypted by the program)?

Thanks

Answer 1

Assuming the file name has no value (if it does, I would add that data as file content), I would just use Path.GetRandomFileName and pass that around.

[Path.GetRandomFileName] returns a cryptographically strong, random string that can be used as either a folder name or a file name.