Re: Encrypting a public Key

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From: Jon Skeet [C# MVP] (skeet_at_pobox.com)
Date: 10/01/04 

Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 22:41:31 +0100

mklapp <mklapp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I've seen something like this once. It involved encrypting and decrypting
> across character definitions.
>
> One application used UTF-8 characters and the other used utf-16. The
> difference in character widths (data to represent it, not the drawn
> characters) caused the decrypted string to differ only slightly from the
> original but, of course, that was enough.

I suspect it wasn't UTF-8 vs UTF-16 then - those would look entirely
different. Point taken though, and I suspect the same kind of thing.
Hard to know without the code though. 

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