ASP MVC: E-mail Verification (Encrypting the activation link)
- by wh0emPah
Okay i'm a little bit stuck on how to solve this problem.
When a user registers. I want to send him a link so that he can verify hes email address.
But i have troubles generating the link.
I've already written the controller to accept the links with the correct keys. i only have no idea on how to generate the activation keys.
So when the user registers i'll send him a link by mail like this:
Your activation link is : http://site.com/user/verify?key=keyhere
Now i have created this method (called by the controller/action) to handle the key in the link:
public string Verify(string value)
{
String email = Decrypt(value);
user u = gebRep.GetUsers().WithEmail(email).SingleOrDefault();
if (u != null)
{
u.emailValid = true;
userReppository.Save();
}
return "Invallid validation value!";
}
Now my problem is I have no idea on how to encrypt and decrypt the email into some sort of key (url friendly) So i can mail it with the link and can use it to verify the email.
I need some kind of (not to complicated but secure) way to encrypt the email into a urlfriendly key.
Tyvm
