Question

I’m writing an application to Encrtpt/Decrypt files and using DESCryptoServiceProvider for this purpose. This seems to work for text files but when I use the same application for .xlsx file, the resulting encrypted file and the decrypted file get corrupted and I’m not able to open that any more. is there any way I can encryt / decrypt different kinds of file like .doc..xls etc.

update : added code for encryption/decryption

public static  void EncryptFile(string filepath,string fileOutput, string key)
    {
        FileStream fsInput = new FileStream(filepath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
        FileStream fsEncrypted = new FileStream(fileOutput, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write);

        DESCryptoServiceProvider DESc = new DESCryptoServiceProvider();
        DESc.Key = ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(key);
        DESc.IV = ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(key);

        ICryptoTransform desEncrypt = DESc.CreateEncryptor();
        CryptoStream cryptoStream = new CryptoStream(fsEncrypted, desEncrypt, CryptoStreamMode.Write);

        byte[] byteArrayInput = new byte[fsInput.Length - 1];
        fsInput.Read(byteArrayInput, 0, byteArrayInput.Length);
        cryptoStream.Write(byteArrayInput, 0, byteArrayInput.Length);
        cryptoStream.Close();
        fsInput.Close();
        fsEncrypted.Close();
    }
public static void DecryptFile(string filepath, string fileOutput, string key)
    {
        DESCryptoServiceProvider DESc = new DESCryptoServiceProvider();
        DESc.Key = ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(key);
        DESc.IV = ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(key);

        FileStream fsread = new FileStream(filepath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
        ICryptoTransform desDecrypt = DESc.CreateDecryptor();
        CryptoStream cryptoStreamDcr = new CryptoStream(fsread, desDecrypt, CryptoStreamMode.Read);

        StreamWriter fsDecrypted = new StreamWriter(fileOutput);
        fsDecrypted.Write(new StreamReader(cryptoStreamDcr).ReadToEnd());
        fsDecrypted.Flush();
        fsDecrypted.Close();
    }

static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        EncryptFile(@"C:\test1.xlsx", @"c:\test2.xlsx", "ABCDEFGH");
        DecryptFile(@"C:\test2.xlsx", @"c:\test3.xlsx", "ABCDEFGH");
    }

Answer 1

You are not encrypting or decrypting correctly. Encrypt -> Decrypt will always give a file identical to the input. If you post your code we may be able to assist in finding the bug in it.