Small followup: sometimes people use Encoding.UTF8 (or even worse, Encoding.ASCII) to convert byte arrays and strings. It is not safe since there are invalid byte sequences and/or character sequences that cannot be converted to the destination type in both ways.
Convert.[From|To]Base64String() are correct solutions. Atsushi Eno Sebastien Pouliot wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 19:11 +0100, Stojance Dimitrovski wrote: >> I need to encrypt a string with quite a strong encryption, but the >> output needs to be a UTF8 encoded string. > > Encryption works on bytes (in and out). > > However it's easy to convert a string into a byte array (input), encrypt > it and the convert the (encrypted byte array) into a base64 string > (which is a valid UTF8 string). > > There are variations but trying to be simpler than that (3 steps) will > only cause you pain. > >> I've been googling for it and there are some examples that show up but >> I am just not sure enogh for them. >> >> I kinda remember about .NET having something like System.Cryptography >> or... > > Sure you used Google ? > > The namespace is System.Security.Cryptography. However you won't find a > class that deals with strings in it. The conversion (string/bytes) can > be done using System.Convert class and using the encoding classes in the > System.Text namespace. > >> Help!? >> _______________________________________________ >> Mono-list maillist - [email protected] >> http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
