you can make use of MD5 hashing algorithm to encrypt password.
md5 is a one-way procedure.
means you can only encrypt it. decrypt is not possible.
means once you get password from user (registration time), then you encrypt password and save it to database.
next time when user entered password, then you can not decrypt the password from the database.
but
you have to encrypt the password(means log in time not registration-time), then you have to check user-entered password hash with the database password hash.
if both are matching then, give user to access website.
you can see this example of md5 hashing..
using System;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.Text;
class Example
{
// Hash an input string and return the hash as
// a 32 character hexadecimal string.
static string getMd5Hash(string input)
{
// Create a new instance of the MD5CryptoServiceProvider object.
MD5 md5Hasher = MD5.Create();
// Convert the input string to a byte array and compute the hash.
byte[] data = md5Hasher.ComputeHash(Encoding.Default.GetBytes(input));
// Create a new Stringbuilder to collect the bytes
// and create a string.
StringBuilder sBuilder = new StringBuilder();
// Loop through each byte of the hashed data
// and format each one as a hexadecimal string.
for (int i = 0; i < data.Length; i++)
{
sBuilder.Append(data[i].ToString("x2"));
}
// Return the hexadecimal string.
return sBuilder.ToString();
}
// Verify a hash against a string.
static bool verifyMd5Hash(string input, string hash)
{
// Hash the input.
string hashOfInput = getMd5Hash(input);
// Create a StringComparer an compare the hashes.
StringComparer comparer = StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase;
if (0 == comparer.Compare(hashOfInput, hash))
{
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}
}
static void Main()
{
string source = "Hello World!";
string hash = getMd5Hash(source);
Console.WriteLine("The MD5 hash of " + source + " is: " + hash + ".");
Console.WriteLine("Verifying the hash...");
if (verifyMd5Hash(source, hash))
{
Console.WriteLine("The hashes are the same.");
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("The hashes are not same.");
}
}
}