Re: how these 2 functions may differ?

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James wrote:
yes, I'm pretty sure they are. I am sure that the text representation
of them on screen (displayed in text box control) is identical.

I see the vbscript code formatting was lost in my post... I'll try to
attach in a .txt file (windows notepad.exe)

I'm reading through msdn docs now and I'm thinking this has something
to do with the fact that the rc4 cipher is using ascii characters
0-255 and the .net asciiEncoding class only uses 0-127.... maybe I
need to add a step where I change the encrypted text to unicode, then
base64 it?

Encrypted text is not text. It is binary data. I suggest you stop using a
string to hold it. Doesn't the encryption routine give you a byte[] out?
And the Base-64 encoding functions take a byte[] as input. No Unicode
needed, no encoding needed, just pass the byte[].




"Family Tree Mike" <FamilyTreeMike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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"James" wrote:

Hello,

I'm having an issue that a previously posted on but after
re-reading that post I realize its a mess and it would be a real
pain for someone to lend a
hand based on that.. so here is a much more direct question:

could anyone tell just how these .net base64 functions differ from
the vbscript base64 functions? When using them if I encode the text
'test' I get
the same result from them all, however, if I first RC4 encrypt the
text 'test' and then encode that, the results differ between the
vbscript and ..net functions?


Are the encrypted strings in both cases identical?

Mike


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