Re: Encrypting Data into a string

Maybe you should show your code? It sounds like you have a misunderstanding
of how you should be encoding your data. Basically, you use Base64 to
represent arbitrary binary data as a string. Base64 is good for this
purpose because it can deal with binary data that doesn't have a good
natural string representation such as data with embedded nulls and other
non-printable characters. Examples of "arbitrary binary data" in the
context of crypto include encrypted data, hashes and keys.

If you have a string of plain text and need to encrypt that, you typically
want to use a text-based encoding such as UTF8 to convert that into binary.

Joe K.

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<michaelloveusa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi there.

I am trying to encrypt a connect string that has some special
characters in it (i.e. ';' and '=' and whatever other funky chars can
be in a password). So this chokes when I use the Convert.ToBase64 and
Convert.FromBase64 methods. I need the result to be a legitimate
string that I can put into a config file. Any ideas on how to best
overcome this issue?

Thanks, Mike



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