Encrypt and Decrypt the files in c# with password

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I have been trying to make a program in c# to password protect a file so nobody can open the file if it has been encrypted by password. User will encrypt the file with password.

Lets take an example, user encrypted an excel file with password as 123456 using C#. My requirement is when the user open the excel it will popup for the password if user enters the correct password, it will decrypt and show the excel data.

My questions is how the file

What I want to do is that after password protecting the file(excel, pdf,txt etc..), whenever somebody click to open the file, it will ask him for the password. After entering correct password decrypt the files.

Note: I am able to do encryption and decryption in c#, but in this case decryption has to happen at file.

Posted 24-Feb-13 20:31pm

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Shubh Agrahari 25-Feb-13 3:02am

something you worked on this...??

Member 7911797 25-Feb-13 3:51am

In the above links decryption is also happening in c# code. My requirement is encrypt file with password and send it to user.User don'h have any windows or web application, we are sending output files through mail or shared folder. When user opens the file(eg. excel) it will prompt for password, when he enter correct password it ha to decrypt and show the file. Here decryption has to happen at file level.

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Shubh Agrahari · Answer 1 · 2013-02-24T21:06:00

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there is some links that may help for your this task....

Encrypt/Decrypt File or String[^]

Encrypt and Decrypt Data with C#[^]

Simple encrypting and decrypting data in C#[^]

how to create password encrypt decrypt in c#[^]

hope will get any idea by these....

happy to help...

Posted 24-Feb-13 21:06pm

Shubh Agrahari

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Member 7911797 25-Feb-13 3:45am

In the above links decryption is also happening in c# code. My requirement is encrypt file with password and send it to user.User don'h have any windows or web application, we are sending output files through mail or shared folder. When user opens the file(eg. excel) it will prompt for password, when he enter correct password it ha to decrypt and show the file. Here decryption has to happen at file level.

Shubh Agrahari 25-Feb-13 3:50am

dude this is possible with a specific programming platform without any platform how we integrate that requirement with file......why you are not using file security tools that could help you better.....

Muhd Hafiz Ahmad · Answer 2 · 2014-05-14T15:52:00

Are you talking about putting a password into Excel/Word type of file? Then you might need to use Macro for that purposes. Currently I'm working on something similar but I stuck at certain point & perhaps someone from here can help me on that...refer here :
Disable Save functionality in Excel with VBA through C#[^]