Sample Program to Encrypt and Decrypt string using RijndaelManaged in CSharp (C#)

Here is a class to Encrypt and Decrypt a given string using RijndaelManaged. You have to change the private variable value based on your strength requirement of the encryption.

Encryption:

public static string Encrypt(string plainText)
{
    byte[] initVectorBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(initVector);
    byte[] saltValueBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(saltValue);
    byte[] plainTextBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(plainText);
    PasswordDeriveBytes password = new PasswordDeriveBytes(passPhrase, saltValueBytes, hashAlgorithm, passwordIterations);
    byte[] keyBytes = password.GetBytes(keySize / 8);
    RijndaelManaged symmetricKey = new RijndaelManaged();
    symmetricKey.Mode = CipherMode.CBC;
    ICryptoTransform encryptor = symmetricKey.CreateEncryptor(keyBytes, initVectorBytes);
    MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
    CryptoStream cryptoStream = new CryptoStream(memoryStream, encryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Write);
    cryptoStream.Write(plainTextBytes, 0, plainTextBytes.Length);
    cryptoStream.FlushFinalBlock();
    byte[] cipherTextBytes = memoryStream.ToArray();
    memoryStream.Close();
    cryptoStream.Close();
    string cipherText = Convert.ToBase64String(cipherTextBytes);
    return cipherText;
 }

Decryption:

public static string Decrypt(string cipherText)
{
    byte[] initVectorBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(initVector);
    byte[] saltValueBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(saltValue);
    byte[] cipherTextBytes = Convert.FromBase64String(cipherText);
    PasswordDeriveBytes password = new PasswordDeriveBytes(passPhrase, saltValueBytes, hashAlgorithm, passwordIterations);
    byte[] keyBytes = password.GetBytes(keySize / 8);
    RijndaelManaged symmetricKey = new RijndaelManaged();
    symmetricKey.Mode = CipherMode.CBC;
    ICryptoTransform decryptor = symmetricKey.CreateDecryptor(keyBytes, initVectorBytes);
    MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream(cipherTextBytes);
    CryptoStream cryptoStream = new CryptoStream(memoryStream, decryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Read);
    byte[] plainTextBytes = new byte[cipherTextBytes.Length];
    int decryptedByteCount = cryptoStream.Read(plainTextBytes, 0, plainTextBytes.Length);
    memoryStream.Close();
    cryptoStream.Close();
    string plainText = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(plainTextBytes, 0, decryptedByteCount);
    return plainText;
 }

These private variables also needs to be initialized within the same class.

    private const string passPhrase = "Pas5pr@se";
    private const string saltValue = "s@1tValue";
    private const string hashAlgorithm = "MD5";
    private const int passwordIterations = 2;
    private const string initVector = "@1B2c3D4e5F6g7H8";
    private const int keySize = 256;