'Declaration
 
Public Overloads Shared Function DecryptString( _
   ByVal keyStore As DataProtectionStore, _
   ByVal encryptedText As String _
) As String

public static string DecryptString( 
   DataProtectionStore keyStore,
   string encryptedText
)

Parameters

keyStore

Specifies which key store to use (User or Machine)

encryptedText

A Base64 encoded string representing the encrypted bytes to decrypt

Return Value

This method expects the payload to be a byte array which contains the UTF8-encoded bytes of a string that was encrypted using the EncryptString Method.

 WARNING: The encryption produced by this class is only usable from the machine on which the encryption occurred. The encrypted text cannot be used by a different computer.

Reference

DataProtector Class
DataProtector Members
Overload List