Re: Encrypt to readable text

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From: Jon Skeet [C# MVP] (skeet_at_pobox.com)
Date: 07/22/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 14:46:18 +0100

Logan McKinley <logan@globalweb.net> wrote:
> I want to encrypt something and use the result as a registration key in my
> program, so it needs to be readable,but all of the encryption methods I have
> tried return unreadable strings. I need an encryption method that limits
> the result to chars that can be easily typed in via a standard keyboard.

The most obvious answer is to encrypt it to normal binary data, and
then base64 encode it. 

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