Update obsolete cryptography APIs and improve security in Visual Basic encryption documentation #48458
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This PR updates the Visual Basic encryption/decryption walkthrough documentation to use modern .NET 6+ cryptography APIs instead of obsolete types that generate warnings in current .NET versions, and improves security by replacing SHA-1 with SHA-256.
Changes Made
Code Updates
TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider
withTripleDES.Create()
factory methodSHA1CryptoServiceProvider
withSHA256.Create()
factory method for improved securityIDisposable
on theSimple3Des
classUsing
statements for proper automatic disposal of cryptographic objectsDocumentation Updates
TripleDES
class instead of obsoleteDESCryptoServiceProvider
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After
The updated code has been tested and verified to work correctly with modern .NET versions while maintaining full backward compatibility. All encryption and decryption functionality remains identical - only the underlying API calls have been modernized with improved security by using SHA-256 instead of SHA-1 to address collision vulnerabilities.
Fixes #30769.
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