How to decrypt with WinRT without changing existing encryption code in .NET Desktop App?

I have a little problem with the whole encrypt/decrypt cr*p ;-)

Is it possible to decrypt data in WinRt (Windows Store App) which was encrypted in a .NET Desktop Application and vice versa? I cannot change the code of the Desktop App because it is already in use.

I already tried a few tutorials for the CryptographicEngine in WinRT but I never get results which match with the ones from the Desktop App.

Maybe somebody could help me? I'm very new to .NET development and I never really did anything with Encryption so I have no idea what I'm doing ;-)

Here is some of the code used in the Desktop App - I can't change that code!

    private string pwd = "password";
    private string salt = "salt";

    public byte[] Encrypt(byte[] data)
    {
        PasswordDeriveBytes derivedPassword = new PasswordDeriveBytes(pwd, Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(salt));
        byte[] key = derivedPassword.GetBytes(16);
        byte[] iv = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("1234567891234567");

        RijndaelManaged symmetricKey = new RijndaelManaged();
        symmetricKey.Mode = CipherMode.CBC;
        byte[] cipherBytes = null;

        using (ICryptoTransform encryptor = symmetricKey.CreateEncryptor(key, iv))
        {
            using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
            {
                using (CryptoStream cryptoStream = new CryptoStream(ms, encryptor, CryptoStreamMode.Write))
                {
                    cryptoStream.Write(data, 0, data.Length);
                    cryptoStream.FlushFinalBlock();
                    cryptoStream.Close();
                    cipherBytes = ms.ToArray();
                    ms.Close();
                }
            }
        }

        symmetricKey.Clear();
        return cipherBytes;
    }

Here an example method that I tried in WinRT - but the result was different to that from the Desktop App (Most of the code is from http://blog.lordinaire.fr/2012/12/winrt-encryption-and-decryption-with-aes-algorithm/ )

non functioning code was removed - see edit

I would really apreciate some help

greetings from Austria

Edit I tried a few things, but I still could not get it to work right :( I just can't get the right key. To test the encryption nonetheless, I hardcoded the key - then it works.

Like Nate Diamond suggested, I used the KeyDerivationAlogrithm with an empty salt and an already salted password. One problem is, I don't know how "to salt". I tried putting the salt in front, at the end, in the middle and alternating every symbol - still not the right key :( Here the code I was using:

    // password = 11112222333344445555  // salt = aaaabbbbccccddddeeee
    private string password = "11112222333344445555aaaabbbbccccddddeeee";
    private byte[] salt = new byte[20];
    private uint iterationCount = 100;

    private static byte[] keyBytes = null;
    public static byte[] KeyBytes
    {
        get
        {
            //for (int i = 0; i < salt.Length; i++)
            //{
            //    salt[i] = 0;
            //}

            // Setup KDF parameters for the desired salt and iteration count
            KeyDerivationParameters kdfParameters = KeyDerivationParameters.BuildForPbkdf2(CryptographicBuffer.CreateFromByteArray(salt), iterationCount);

            // Get a KDF provider for PBKDF2, and store the source password in a Cryptographic Key
            KeyDerivationAlgorithmProvider kdf = KeyDerivationAlgorithmProvider.OpenAlgorithm(KeyDerivationAlgorithmNames.Pbkdf2Sha1);
            IBuffer passwordBuffer = CryptographicBuffer.ConvertStringToBinary(password, BinaryStringEncoding.Utf8);
            CryptographicKey passwordSourceKey = kdf.CreateKey(passwordBuffer);

            // Generate key material from the source password, salt, and iteration count.  Only call DeriveKeyMaterial once,
            // since calling it twice will generate the same data for the key and IV.
            uint totalDataNeeded = 16;
            IBuffer keyAndIv = CryptographicEngine.DeriveKeyMaterial(passwordSourceKey, kdfParameters, totalDataNeeded);

            // Split the derived bytes into a seperate key and IV
            keyBytes = keyAndIv.ToArray();


            return keyBytes;
        }
    }

Here the code of my encrypt method - it yields the same result as the one in the .NET Desktop App :)

private byte[] btVector = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("1234567891234567");
private byte[] keyBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("123456789123456789123456");

public byte[] Encrypt(byte[] data)
    {
        // Get the key and iv and put all into IBuffers
        IBuffer keyBuffer = WindowsRuntimeBuffer.Create(KeyBytes, 0, 16, 16); ;
        IBuffer iv = WindowsRuntimeBuffer.Create(InitialVectorBytes, 0, 16, 16);
        IBuffer plainText = CryptographicBuffer.CreateFromByteArray(data);
        byte[] encryptedData;

        // Setup an AES key, using AES in CBC mode and applying PKCS#7 padding on the input
        SymmetricKeyAlgorithmProvider aesProvider = SymmetricKeyAlgorithmProvider.OpenAlgorithm(SymmetricAlgorithmNames.AesCbcPkcs7);
        CryptographicKey aesKeySymm = aesProvider.CreateSymmetricKey(keyBuffer);

        // Encrypt the data and convert it to byte array
        IBuffer encrypted = CryptographicEngine.Encrypt(aesKeySymm, plainText, iv);
        CryptographicBuffer.CopyToByteArray(encrypted, out encryptedData);
        return encryptedData;
    }