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Cryptostream with complex files

I'm using a crypto stream to encrypt/decrypt files. It works fine with simple
files like .txt but butchers pdfs and xls. Is there a solid way to
encrypt/decrypt files that are more complex than plain text?
Thanks
Jul 21 '05 #1
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ghause <gh****@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
I'm using a crypto stream to encrypt/decrypt files. It works fine with simple
files like .txt but butchers pdfs and xls. Is there a solid way to
encrypt/decrypt files that are more complex than plain text?


Absolutely - don't do any text conversion! It sounds like your
encryption/decryption code is flaky.

Could you post a short but complete program which demonstrates the
problem?

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/complete.html for details of
what I mean by that.

--
Jon Skeet - <sk***@pobox.com>
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet
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