Encrypting a List

[Rockdude]

Hello,

In an application that I am working on, I have a list of data that needs to be encrypted and decrypted on command (I am using the "list object"). While encrypting, the lines of the list seem to be encrypted into a fewer number of lines, causing the decryption to be wrong. Could this be happening because I am encrypting the whole list at once? Should I encrypt the data one line at a time?

Thank you,
Rockdude

[LB]

This should not matter, as long as it is decrypted the same way it was encrypted it will always work.

Which extension are you using to perform the encryption?

[Jaffob]

It makes sense that the encrypted list has fewer lines than the decrypted one. Lists usually use a delimiter character (often a new line or a comma) to separate every item in the list. When you encrypt the entire file, these characters are changed into different ones. So if you load the entire encrypted file back into your list extension, there will be fewer lines than before.

No data will have been lost, however, so decrypt it and it should be exactly the same.

[Rockdude]

I have figured it out!

The reason it was coming out differently was because I had been encrypting the whole file at once, and then decrypting one line at a time in the program. I had been using a different method for both encrypting and decrypting.

Well, thanks for the help, LB and Jaffob.