SymmetricAlgorithm: IV (get)

IV

Gets the initialization vector (IV) for the symmetric algorithm.



 Public Property Get IV ( ) As Byte ( ) :

Return Values

Byte() -  The initialization vector.

Remarks

If several blocks of same plain text are encrypted, the ciphered data could all be the same aswell. Using an Initialization Vector can prevent same plain text blocks to reproduce the same ciphered blocks.

This can be generated using GenerateIV, or a new one will be generated if one hasnt been set when this property is accessed.

This must be set to an array the same size as the block size divided by 8.

Read/Write.

See Also

Project CorLib Overview

Class SymmetricAlgorithm Overview