Re: Encryption

From: Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] (hirf-spam-me-here_at_gmx.at)
Date: 01/01/05 

Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 13:34:48 +0100

"Nitin" <loginitin@yahoo.com> schrieb:
> My program encryptes text using filestream and DES and stores the
> encrypted text in a text file. I want to encrypt any text and store it in
> access data base(I need the encrypted text as 'string') and not a text
> file. Can anyone help me?.

Instead of encrypting to a 'FileStream', you can encrypt to a 'MemoryStream'
and then put the data in a database field as a BLOB:

HOW TO: Read and Write a File to and from a BLOB Column by Using ADO.NET and
Visual Basic .NET
<URL:http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;EN-US;316887>

HOW TO: Read and Write a File to and from a BLOB Column by Using Chunking in
ADO.NET and Visual Basic .NET
<URL:http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;EN-US;317034> 

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