Encryption and decryption of a string in C#: a simple and secure way

Hello everyone! I'm a beginner C# developer, and I have a problem with string encryption. I need to store a user's password in an encrypted form in the database, and then decrypt it during login and compare it with the entered password. I tried using simple algorithms, but the code turns out to be cumbersome and, as I understand, insecure. Here's what I wrote: ```csharp public static string Encrypt(string text) { byte[] data = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(text); for (int i = 0; i < data.Length; i++) { data[i] = (byte)(data[i] ^ 0xFF); // simple XOR } return Convert.ToBase64String(data); } ``` But I understand that this is "child's play" in terms of security. I've heard about AES, but I don't know how to properly use it with salt, initialization vector (IV), and key.