Re: Questions about RijndaelManaged and Rijndael

Hi Dominik,

Can someone tell me what the difference is between the class
RijndaelManaged
and Rijndael??

Rijndael is the base class of all the implementations of the Rijndael
algorithm. The RijndaelManaged class is such an implementation of the
algorithm (one in purely managed code -- as the name implies).
The idea behind this design is that you can use "Rijndael.Create" to
generate 'a Rijndael implementation', and your code doesn't have to care
whether it's actually a RijndaelManaged, or something else (such as our
RijndaelCryptoServiceProvider implementation).

Is it correctly that if I call the Rijndael.Create method, a random Key
and
IV is automatically generated?

Yes, that's indeed the case.

Regards,
Pieter Philippaerts


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