Cookie value different after adding via Response.Appendcookie

Hi all,
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On WinXP, VS 2003, .net 1.1
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I have written an encryption class which uses rijndael method to encrypt a
string AND then convert the string to unicode using System.Text.
Unicodeencoder.
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I then write this encrpyted string as follows:
//c is HTTPCookie
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c.Values.Add("ValueString",sEncryptedString);
Response.AppendCookie(c2);
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This results in the asp.net tracer outputting
For the Value described above:
Num Bytes : 16
String : 㺎旖犗？Ȭꂼ꿣è°*
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When reading this cookie in the Application_AuthenticateRequest sub it
also
outputs as above. 16 Bytes. Same string build from the characters above..
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However doing the above on a win2003 machine hosting the web project, the
tracer output shows the value in the cookie as blocks , ie, non
displayable
characters. but when reading the cookie again the BYTES are 42 and the
string
is double the size and consists of garbage.
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note that im using the unicodeencoder.getbytes and getbytelength to
determine
the lenght of the string in bytes.
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Why is this not working when hosting the project on a Win2003 machine but
it
works on winxp sp2?
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>Sounds like an ASCII/Unicode problem. I am not sure how to solve it,
>however. I have, in the past, had to clip off the end of a string. I ended
>up figuring out the problem in the encryption algorithm, but I do not
>remember what it was. One option is to set up a Virtual machine with Windows
>2003 and Visual Studio and play with your algorithm. You can then compare
>the results on XP, just to be safe. Worst case is a factory that pulls an
>encryption algorithm based on OS.
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