Create Password Hash : Hash « Security « C# / C Sharp

1. C# / C Sharp
2. Security
3. Hash

Create Password Hash

 

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.ComponentModel;

namespace CryptoUtils {
  /// <summary>
  /// Cryptography helper class
  /// </summary>
  public class Cryptography {

    /// <summary>
    /// Hash algorithm enum
    /// </summary>
    public enum HashType : short {
      [DescriptionAttribute( "SHA1CryptoServiceProvider" )]
      SHA1 = 0,
      [DescriptionAttribute( "SHA256Managed" )]
      SHA256 = 1,
      [DescriptionAttribute( "SHA384Managed" )]
      SHA384 = 2,
      [DescriptionAttribute( "SHA512Managed" )]
      SHA512 = 3,
      [DescriptionAttribute( "MD5CryptoServiceProvider" )]
      MD5 = 4
    }


    /// <summary>
    /// Creates a random salt to add to a password.
    /// </summary>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static string CreateSalt( ) {
      RandomNumberGenerator rng = RandomNumberGenerator.Create( );
      byte[ ] number = new byte[ 32 ];
      rng.GetBytes( number );
      return Convert.ToBase64String( number );
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Creates the password hash using a given HashType algoritm.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="salt">The salt.</param>
    /// <param name="password">The password.</param>
    /// <param name="hashType">Type of the hash.</param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static string CreatePasswordHash( string salt, string password, HashType hashType ) {
      string hashString = string.Empty;
      if ( !string.IsNullOrEmpty( password ) ) {
        HashAlgorithm hashAlg = HashAlgorithm.Create( hashType.ToString( ) );
        byte[ ] pwordData = Encoding.Default.GetBytes( salt + password );
        byte[ ] hash = hashAlg.ComputeHash( pwordData );
        hashString = Convert.ToBase64String( hash );
      }
      return hashString;
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Creates the password hash using SHA256 managed hash algoritm.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="salt">The password salt.</param>
    /// <param name="password">The password.</param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static string CreatePasswordHash( string salt, string password ) {
      return CreatePasswordHash( salt, password, HashType.SHA256 );
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Encrypts the password.
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="password">The password.</param>
    /// <param name="salt">The salt.</param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public static string EncryptPassword( string password, out string salt ) {
      salt = CreateSalt( );
      return CreatePasswordHash( salt, password );
    }


  }
}

   
  

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