Re: encryption

[Henri Yandell <bayard@generationjava.com>]

I always prefer to turn the byte[N] into a hexadecimal string, store that
as varchar(N) [or is it 2N ..] and then convert it back on the way out.

This is primarily because I felt varchars were a nice simple format
without any pain. It's also nice as I'll use the same format when
debugging the key.

Hen

On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Wade Steele wrote:

> I have some code to generate a Key.  What I need to do is store this key
> into a database so that I can retrieve it at a later time to decrypt a
> string.  What is the easiest way of handling this?  It would be nice if
> there was a way of converting it to a different format, that could be
> persisted, retrieved again, and converted back to a Key.
>
> Any help would be great.  Possibly a BLOB?  I haven't a clue.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wade
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