From: Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@...>
Date: 2010-12-14T06:04:39+09:00
Subject: Re: EzCrypto crypts to string or binary?

On 12/13/2010 02:56 PM, Tal Shrestha wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using EzCrypto to encrypt a string, this way:
> 
>       key = EzCrypto::Key.with_password("aKey","salted hash")
>       encrypted = key.encrypt("a string")
> 
> Now, it seems that when I run this on IRB I get a string:
> "M\244X\215\322M\262\022\324\2269\243`\034\212T"
> 
> But, when I run this on the server I get binary characters. Why is that?
> I need it to be string (like on IRB). What am I missing?

It appears that you're getting binary data in irb as well.  It's just
that irb is showing the string using its inspect method.  String#inspect
will produce a representation of the string that could be used as a
literal, so all of the non-printable characters without any other
representation such as \n, \t, etc. are replaced with \nnn sequences
where nnn is a number representing the binary value of the byte.

-Jeremy