Re: Encrypting binary and text data

In article <1191506453.632349.193640@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
jma <junkmailavoid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi all,

I am pretty new to the subject so if I write sth stupid just point it
out to me loud... I want to encrypt chunks of data that include ascii
character. So it's not plain text but rather a binary stream. My
question is whether an algorithm like AES is efficient and what
problems I may face.

Most of the standard encryption algorithms don't care whether the input
data is text or binary. It's just raw data.

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