hMailServer.Administrator.Utilities.Encryption.Encrypt C# (CSharp) Method

        public static string Encrypt(string plainText)
        {
            // Encryption operates on byte arrays, not on strings.
            byte[] plainTextBytes =
              System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(plainText);

            // Derive a key from the password.
            PasswordDeriveBytes passwordDerivedBytes = new PasswordDeriveBytes(NOT_SECRET_KEY,
                new byte[] {0x49, 0x76, 0x61, 0x6e, 0x20, 0x4d, 0x65, 0x64, 0x76, 0x65, 0x64, 0x65, 0x76});

            // Use Rijndael symmetric algorithm to do the encryption.
            Rijndael rijndaelAlgorithm = Rijndael.Create();
            rijndaelAlgorithm.Key = passwordDerivedBytes.GetBytes(32);
            rijndaelAlgorithm.IV = passwordDerivedBytes.GetBytes(16);

            MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream();

            CryptoStream cryptoStream = new CryptoStream(memoryStream, rijndaelAlgorithm.CreateEncryptor(), CryptoStreamMode.Write);
            cryptoStream.Write(plainTextBytes, 0, plainTextBytes.Length);
            cryptoStream.Close();

            byte[] encryptedBytes = memoryStream.ToArray();

            return Convert.ToBase64String(encryptedBytes);
        }