The ICryptoTransform interface represents blockwise cryptographic transformation which could be an encryption, ecryption, hashing, Base64 encoding/decoding, or formatting operation.  You can create an ICryptoTransform object for a given algorithm by using the:

– CreateEncryptor() method – if you want to encrypt data.

– CreateDecryptor() method – if you want to encrypt data.

 

The next code lines illustrate this approach:

 

Dim Crypt As TripleDES = TripleDES.Create()

Dim Transform As ICryptoTransform = Crypt.CreateEncryptor()