Encrypt/Decrypt string VB.Net

Imports System.Security.Cryptography

Encryption Coding Is:

/*
* [strText]: string is that you need to encrypt
*[strEncrKey]: is the key to decrypt the string that has encryption

*/

Private 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

Decryption Code Is:
/*
* [strText]: a string that has been encrypt with the above method
*[sDecrKey]: string is the key needed to decrypt
*/
Private 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

Call Function:
Return  Encrypt(“string is that you need to encrypt“, “abc123″)
Return  Decrypt(“string that has been encrypt with the above method
“, “abc123″)