diff --git a/src/platforms/win32.ts b/src/platforms/win32.ts
index 94a78d7..59a16e4 100644
--- a/src/platforms/win32.ts
+++ b/src/platforms/win32.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,17 @@ import { run, sudo } from '../utils';
 import UI from '../user-interface';
 
 const debug = createDebug('devcert:platforms:windows');
+const ALG_NAME = 'aes-256-gcm';
+const ALG_SIZES = {
+  NONCE: 16,
+  TAG: 16,
+  KEY: 16,
+};
+const PBKDF2 = {
+  NAME: 'sha256',
+  SALT_SIZE: 16,
+  ITER: 32767,
+};
 
 let encryptionKey: string;
 
@@ -44,7 +55,7 @@ export default class WindowsPlatform implements Platform {
       debug('Error opening Firefox, most likely Firefox is not installed');
     }
   }
-  
+
   removeFromTrustStores(certificatePath: string) {
     debug('removing devcert root from Windows OS trust store');
     try {
@@ -61,7 +72,7 @@ export default class WindowsPlatform implements Platform {
       await sudo(`echo 127.0.0.1  ${ domain } >> ${ this.HOST_FILE_PATH }`);
     }
   }
-  
+
   deleteProtectedFiles(filepath: string) {
     assertNotTouchingFiles(filepath, 'delete');
     rimraf(filepath);
@@ -94,14 +105,68 @@ export default class WindowsPlatform implements Platform {
     write(filepath, encryptedContents);
   }
 
-  private encrypt(text: string, key: string) {
-    let cipher = crypto.createCipher('aes256', new Buffer(key));
-    return cipher.update(text, 'utf8', 'hex') + cipher.final('hex');
-  }
+  private getPbkdf2 = (password: string, salt: Buffer): Buffer => {
+    return crypto.pbkdf2Sync(
+      Buffer.from(password, 'utf8'),
+      salt,
+      PBKDF2.ITER,
+      ALG_SIZES.KEY,
+      PBKDF2.NAME
+    );
+  };
 
-  private decrypt(encrypted: string, key: string) {
-    let decipher = crypto.createDecipher('aes256', new Buffer(key));
-    return decipher.update(encrypted, 'hex', 'utf8') + decipher.final('utf8');
-  }
+  private getCryptoKey = (key: Buffer) =>
+    crypto.createHash('sha256').update(key).digest();
+
+  private encrypt = (plainText: string, password: string): string => {
+    // Generate a 128-bit salt using a PBKDF2.
+    const salt = crypto.randomBytes(PBKDF2.SALT_SIZE);
+
+    // Derive a key using PBKDF2.
+    const key = this.getCryptoKey(this.getPbkdf2(password, salt));
+
+    // Generate a 128-bit nonce using a CSPRNG.
+    const nonce = crypto.randomBytes(ALG_SIZES.NONCE);
+
+    // Create the cipher instance.
+    const cipher = crypto.createCipheriv(ALG_NAME, key, nonce);
+
+    // Encrypt and prepend salt.
+    return Buffer.concat([
+      salt,
+      nonce,
+      cipher.update(plainText, 'utf8'),
+      cipher.final(),
+      cipher.getAuthTag(),
+    ]).toString('base64');
+  };
+
+  private decrypt = (
+    base64EncryptedContent: string,
+    password: string
+  ): string => {
+    // Decode the base64.
+    const encCipher = Buffer.from(base64EncryptedContent, 'base64');
+
+    // Create buffers of salt, nonce, encryption cipher, and auth tag
+    let position = 0;
+    const salt = encCipher.slice(position, (position += PBKDF2.SALT_SIZE));
+    const nonce = encCipher.slice(position, (position += ALG_SIZES.NONCE));
+    const encContent = encCipher.slice(
+      position,
+      encCipher.length - ALG_SIZES.TAG
+    );
+    const tag = encCipher.slice(encCipher.length - ALG_SIZES.TAG);
+
+    // Derive the key using PBKDF2.
+    const key = this.getCryptoKey(this.getPbkdf2(password, salt));
+
+    const decipher = crypto.createDecipheriv(ALG_NAME, key, nonce);
+    decipher.setAuthTag(tag);
 
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+    return Buffer.concat([
+      decipher.update(encContent),
+      decipher.final(),
+    ]).toString('utf8');
+  };
+}