What is SecureString ?

In this post, we are going to discuss a class SecureString. Although this class is available since .NET 2.0, but I am sure, many of us would not be knowing or using it. Even I was not aware of this fantastic class few weeks ago. This class can be very useful for you if you are more concerned about your application security.

This class belongs to the namespace System.Security . This class should be used to store the data which is confidential. The text assigned to this string is by default encrypted. This data is also removed as soon as it is not required which in-turn reduces the chances of misuse.

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