I have an encryption server that encrypts this data and writes this to a table in the database. I can extract data from the database and then send it in a request to the server so that it can give back me the plain text(this is what I am trying to do right now).
The data is stored as a hex string in the database table. I want to convert it back to a "regular string" and am unable to find the right conversion string using pack/unpack. I hope this makes my question clearer.
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You'll need to send the data back to the encryption server and have it decrypt it.
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That is what I am trying to do. In order to send the data back to the encryption server, I need to read it from the database first, create a request and then send it to the server.
The problem I am seeing right now is that the data I have extracted from the database is in Hex format like the string I posted earlier (639D879F224CA2A1BA73CC4884DBD362) and the server does not recognize this as a valid cipher text (sending a request with this string results in error). That is the reason I wish to convert the hex string to a "string format" using pack/unpack so that I can send the "correct" ciphertext to the server. IMHO, a conversion of the hex number to a regular string should work.
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