Personally, I'd recommend the C# port of the Bouncy Castle project for many different applications: http://www.bouncycastle.org/ --Chris
On 2/15/07, Atsushi Eno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
