title: RijndaelManaged vs AesCryptoServiceProvider (AES Encryption)
body: <p>I needed to encrypt data using AES. While researching I discovered the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.security.cryptography.aescryptoserviceprovider%28v=vs.100%29.aspx" rel="noreferrer">AesCryptoServiceProvider</a> class.</p>
  
  <p>I know very little about encryption and I did not know what the initialization vector (IV) was, so I tried searching for an AES example in stack overflow and that lead me to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/273499/637142">this question</a>.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Why does the stack overflow link uses the RijndaelManaged class? Are the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/3k2d54f8%28v=vs.100%29.aspx" rel="noreferrer">RijndaelManaged</a> and <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.security.cryptography.aescryptoserviceprovider%28v=vs.100%29.aspx" rel="noreferrer">AesCryptoServiceProvider</a> classes doing the same thing?</strong></p>