Encryption Password "String"

[Arctous]

I want to hand ES2 a key that I move around as bytes. My plan was to convert it to an ASCII string. So, my question is: are there any limitations on the ASCII character range than can be in the password "string" (besides 0x0)? I want to be able to use 0x01-0xff.
Thanks!

[Joel]

Hi there,

Easy Save uses C#'s encryption libraries, which simply convert the password to a byte array underneath, so the actual characters of the string should not matter. All that matters is that the string is identical each time.

All the best,
Joel

[Arctous]

Thanks, Joel. Makes sense. What are you using for the IV?

[Joel]

In Easy Save 2, Rfc2898DeriveBytes is used to get a pseudo-random 16-byte array based on the password and salt.

In Easy Save 3, AES.GenerateIV() is used to generate a random IV.

All the best,
Joel