Key Property

The secret key for the symmetric algorithm.

Syntax

ezcryptcontrol.Key[=string]

Default Value

Remarks

This secret key is used both for encryption and decryption. The secret key should be known only to the sender and the receiver. The legal key size varies depending on the algorithm.

If this property is left empty and KeyPassword is specified, a Key value will be generated by the control as necessary.

Legal Key and Block Sizes (in bits)


	AES	CAST	DES	IDEA	RC2	RC4	TripleDES	Blowfish	Twofish	TEA
Minimum Key Size	128	40	64	128	8	8	128	1	128	128
Maximum Key Size	256	128	64	128	128	2048	192	448	256	128
Key Size Step	64	8	0	0	8	8	64	1	8	0
Block Size	128	64	64	64	64	N/A	64	64	128	64

The default KeySize is the Maximum Key Size.

To read or write binary data to the property, a Variant (Byte Array) version is provided in .KeyB.

Data Type

Binary String