Hello Monks, I am trying to write a program that encrypts and decrypts data so it can be securely sent across the internet. It works by loading all of the unique characters into an array and then changing each one to another character within that array (each one receives a unique value as well). The decrypter simply unscrambles the nonsensical output and rebuilds the exact same file you had before. It works great for an all text file (I tried it on a few essays I had written) but I ran it on a .wmv file and I was getting a weird error. I could encrypt and decrypt it just fine and my input file and final output file seemed to be exactly the same except one had a few more characters than the other but I couldn't open the new .wmv. I wrote a quick script to compare strings from the two files and found no differences. I know the problem is either the Non-ASCii characters or the .wmv format. Any solutions?

In reply to Non-ASCii character encryption by ROFL

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