encrypt and decrypt part of file content in asp.net core

Question

I want to encrypt files after upload and decrypt before download in asp.net core 3.1, I can run this issue by this tutorial: link, but if the file is large, this process is very Time-consuming and Reduces efficiency.

is any way to encrypt only part of the file?

Answer 1

Addition:- you may use the link for binary serialization from here :-Encrypt .NET binary serialization stream

Of course, you can do but you need to aware of some Encryption/Decryption classes or algorithms available in Dotnet Or you can take help from this:-

    class TestAESENC{
    public static string EncryptString(string text, string keyString)
        {
            var key = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(keyString);
            using (var aesAlg = Aes.Create())
            {
                using (var encryptor = aesAlg.CreateEncryptor(key, aesAlg.IV))
                {
                    using (var msEncrypt = new MemoryStream())
                    {
                        using (var csEncrypt = new CryptoStream(msEncrypt, encryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Write))
                        using (var swEncrypt = new StreamWriter(csEncrypt))
                        {
                            swEncrypt.Write(text);
                        }
                        var iv = aesAlg.IV;
                        var decryptedContent = msEncrypt.ToArray();
                        var result = new byte[iv.Length + decryptedContent.Length];
                        Buffer.BlockCopy(iv, 0, result, 0, iv.Length);
                        Buffer.BlockCopy(decryptedContent, 0, result, iv.Length, decryptedContent.Length);
                        return Convert.ToBase64String(result);
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        public static string DecryptString(string cipherText, string keyString)
        {
            var fullCipher = Convert.FromBase64String(cipherText);
            var iv = new byte[16];
            var cipher = new byte[16];
            Buffer.BlockCopy(fullCipher, 0, iv, 0, iv.Length);
            Buffer.BlockCopy(fullCipher, iv.Length, cipher, 0, iv.Length);
            var key = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(keyString);
            using (var aesAlg = Aes.Create())
            {
                using (var decryptor = aesAlg.CreateDecryptor(key, iv))
                {
                    string result;
                    using (var msDecrypt = new MemoryStream(cipher))
                    {
                        using (var csDecrypt = new CryptoStream(msDecrypt, decryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Read))
                        {
                            using (var srDecrypt = new StreamReader(csDecrypt))
                            {
                                result = srDecrypt.ReadToEnd();
                            }
                        }
                    }

                    return result;
                }
            }
        }
}

Answer 2

The code below you can use to split files into parts at the path being provided according to the chunk size:-

public static void SplitFile(string inputFile, int chunkSize, string path)
{
    const int BUFFER_SIZE = 20 * 1024;
    byte[] buffer = new byte[BUFFER_SIZE];

    using (Stream input = File.OpenRead(inputFile))
    {
        int index = 0;
        while (input.Position < input.Length)
        {
            using (Stream output = File.Create(path + "\\" + index))
            {
                int remaining = chunkSize, bytesRead;
                while (remaining > 0 && (bytesRead = input.Read(buffer, 0,
                        Math.Min(remaining, BUFFER_SIZE))) > 0)
                {
                    output.Write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
                    remaining -= bytesRead;
                }
            }
            index++;
            Thread.Sleep(500); // experimental; perhaps try it
        }
    }
}

then you may apply above code to encrypt decrypt or merge the parts, I am sure this works