Re: Crypto API using RC2 instead of RC4?

From: Valery Pryamikov (valery_at_harper.no)
Date: 11/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:42:04 +0100

if you store cipher in xml - you should encode result bin array with base64
after encryption (ie. binary-base64 xsd datatype or someting like that) and
base64 decode it in bytearray before decryption.

-Valery.
http://www.harper.no/valery

"Matt" <mtaylor@gladstonemrm.com> wrote in message
news:1132825237.775234.148260@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Ok, thanks Valery.
>
> I shall digest what you've written.
> You might be right about the use of srings to store the data being a
> problem.
> The original KB code used files so I adapted it to use strings as I
> want to use the encrypted data in some XML I'm sending to the .Net
> application.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
>

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