"Steve Kallal" <SteveKallal@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks Alek,
>
> Can you point me to an online sample where the ciphertext output is always
> produced the same with the same inputs.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
> "Alek Davis" wrote:
>
> > Steve,
> >
> > Every encryption algorithm when used with the same key (and
initialization
> > vector, IV, if applicable) will produce the same ciphertext value from
the
> > same plaintext value. Are you saying that you cannot find a sample code
that
> > would allow you to encrypt the same value (with the same key and IV) and
> > generate the consistent result? If this is the case, you may not be
doing it
> > correctly. Please forget about your application for a moment and just
try to
> > solve the problem with a simple text string. There are many examples
online
> > explaining ho to do this. If this is not the case, and you cannot
achieve
> > consistent results for your particular application (not really sure what
you
> > are doing regarding caching of the ASP.NET pages), then you need to
focus on
> > the inputs. Make sure that plaintext converted to byte arrays, and key
> > characteristics (key bytes, or password, IV, salt, password iterations,
> > hashing algorithm) are the same.
> >
> > Alek
> >
>