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I just finish reading an article in the November issue of MSDN Magazine.
This month is focus on security.

Well I don't pretend to be a specialist, so I learned a lot from an article on encrypted data by James McCaffrey.

I already used hashing method, what is called one-way encryption.

I didn't know that you have also a two-way method, AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) based on a 256 bit key.
To say the least, surely secure enough!

James's article includes also a C# implementation. I think using it for the case I store user passwords, and I need an admin to be able to retrieve and decrypt a lost password.