CodeSnip: GnuPG Encryption for Email, XML, and Others in a VB.NET Wrapper: ASPAlliance
"For email there is only one security standard that is highly used--PGP or the public domain version GnuPG. I recently had to apply GnuPG to a commercial email program and found that nowhere on the Internet was this asymmetric encryption available for .NET usage. It was quite a challenge coding one, so I thought it worthy of an article to save people from what I had to go through to get there. Full source code is available and discussed with links to more.
I am assuming in this article some knowledge of PGP, GnuPG, or asymmetric encryption:
If you don't have this prerequisite, you may garner it at: http://www.gnupg.org.
PGP or GnuPG (the public domain near equivalent) are important encryptions because they are standards that are being used in email and secure XML transfers and other areas. They were originally developed in the Linux/C language environ but can be used in Windows and .NET easily with a wrapper that is easily modified to support any features you want to use.
..."Speaking of GnuPG, here's a VB.Net wrapper...
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