RE: Encryption for a log and Unicode Characters...? Yikes!

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RobKinney1 <RobKinney1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thank you for replying.
>
> We are looking for a simple way to "encrypt" text to a log file in real time
> that has very low overhead for the processor, yet still keeping the log files
> the same size.

There are various ways you can do that, but frankly it becomes easier
if you treat the data as binary - encode it (eg using Encoding.UTF8 or
Encoding.Unicode) and then do whatever simple "encryption" you want.
However, that way you will *not* get logs which are viewable in
notepad. Is that really an issue for you? I would have thought you only
wanted log files which, if sent to you, you can decode.

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