in reply to Encrypt Binary Data

What's wrong with the modules you listed? Have you tried them with binary data? Where the PODs for those say "$plaintext" they don't mean plain text in the sense of ASCII, they mean "plaintext" in the context of cryptography-- which is to say, "the unencrypted data".... as opposed to the "ciphertext", which is the encrypted data.

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