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

public static string DecryptString( 
   DataProtectionStore keyStore,
   string encryptedText,
   string entropy
)

Parameters

keyStore

Specifies which key store to use (User or Machine)

encryptedText

A Base64 encoded string representing the encrypted bytes to decrypt

entropy

The entropy, or "password" to use to decrypt this data. The value must be the same as was used to originally encrypt the data

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