Encryption/Decryption in VB.Net

Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic
Imports System
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Security.Cryptography

Public Class DES

    Public Shared Function Encrypt(ByVal strText As String, ByVal strEncrKey As String) As String
        Dim IV() As Byte = {&H12, &H34, &H56, &H78, &H90, &HAB, &HCD, &HEF}
        Try
            Dim bykey() As Byte = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(Left(strEncrKey, 8))
            Dim InputByteArray() As Byte = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(strText)
            Dim des As New DESCryptoServiceProvider
            Dim ms As New MemoryStream
            Dim cs As New CryptoStream(ms, des.CreateEncryptor(bykey, IV), CryptoStreamMode.Write)
            cs.Write(InputByteArray, 0, InputByteArray.Length)
            cs.FlushFinalBlock()
            Return Convert.ToBase64String(ms.ToArray())
        Catch ex As Exception
            Return ex.Message
        End Try
    End Function

    Public Shared Function Decrypt(ByVal strText As String, ByVal sDecrKey As String) As String
        Dim IV() As Byte = {&H12, &H34, &H56, &H78, &H90, &HAB, &HCD, &HEF}
        Dim inputByteArray(strText.Length) As Byte
        Try
            Dim byKey() As Byte = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(Left(sDecrKey, 8))
            Dim des As New DESCryptoServiceProvider
            inputByteArray = Convert.FromBase64String(strText)
            Dim ms As New MemoryStream
            Dim cs As New CryptoStream(ms, des.CreateDecryptor(byKey, IV), CryptoStreamMode.Write)
            cs.Write(inputByteArray, 0, inputByteArray.Length)
            cs.FlushFinalBlock()
            Dim encoding As System.Text.Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8
            Return encoding.GetString(ms.ToArray())
        Catch ex As Exception
            Return ex.Message
        End Try
    End Function



End Class