Generate Secret Key from Password

The GenEncodedSecretKey method provides a way to produce a secret key from an arbitrarily sized password string. The secret key produced will be equal in bit length to the KeyLength. A given string passed to GenEncodedSecretKey will always produce the same key. (In other words, this is really a hash function and not a random key generator.)

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Chilkat.Crypt2 crypt = new Chilkat.Crypt2();

bool success;
success = crypt.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day Trial");
if (success != true) {
    MessageBox.Show("Crypt component unlock failed");
    return;
}

crypt.CryptAlgorithm = "aes";
crypt.KeyLength = 128;

//  Transform an arbitrary-length password to a secret key
//  equal in bit-length to the KeyLength:
string hexKey;
hexKey = crypt.GenEncodedSecretKey("my_password","hex");

//  Set the secret key:
crypt.SetEncodedKey(hexKey,"hex");

//  The hexKey is 16 bytes in length:
MessageBox.Show(hexKey);