What is the Result of the encryption, that you store in the DB?

Is it:
- Utf8
- Ascii
- Binary

I wouldn't expect, that a encrypted utf8 string results in a valid
utf8 string.

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Andreas

Am 17.07.2013 23:44, schrieb Robert Martin:

>
> Hi
>
> We have a string encryption string function that can encode a unicode
> text string and later decode it to the original (unicode) text. This
> was tested with text in TEdit controls as follows ...
>
> (Note these values are made up and this is shown to show how the system
> was tested)
>
> Edit1.Text = 'fred'
> -> Edit1 Encrypted to Edit2
> Edit2.Text = '12345' (This normally shows as funny characters)
>
> -Edit2 decrypted to Edit3
> Edit3.Text = 'fred'
>
> However In actual use it fails to decrypt. I have tracked this to what
> is actually stored in the database. In my test app the value in shown
> in Edit2 is not what is stored in the database !
>
> I am using IBObjects ver 5.2.0 6 and my DB field is defined as UTF8. I
> am using .AsString to read and write from the database.
>
> Any idea what is going on?
>
> Thanks
> Rob
>

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