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I seem to be struggling with this code and it would be appreciated if anyone can help. I have a string of data in web.config file in say the following format: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 15, 17, 19. I need to pass the data into: <code>private static readonly byte[] Entropy</code> but I keep getting the error: The data is invalid If I use the following: private static readonly byte[] Entropy = { 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 15, 17, 19}; it works Ok, so my problem seems to be converting the string into byte[]. I have googled this problem on numerous sites (below are a few) <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/542766/c-sharp-convert-string-into-its-byte-equivalent">C# convert string into its byte[] equivalent</a> <a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/08e4553e-690e-458a-87a4-9762d8d405a6/how-to-convert-the-string-to-byte-in-c-" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/08e4553e-690e-458a-87a4-9762d8d405a6/how-to-convert-the-string-to-byte-in-c-</a> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16072709/converting-string-to-byte-array-in-c-sharp">Converting string to byte array in C#</a> <a href="http://www.chilkatsoft.com/faq/dotnetstrtobytes.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.chilkatsoft.com/faq/dotnetstrtobytes.html</a> But nothing seems to work. As stated above any help would be appreciated. <pre><code>private static readonly string WKey = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Entropy"]; private static readonly byte[] Entropy = WKey; public static string DecryptDataUsingDpapi(string encryptedData) { byte[] dataToDecrypt = Convert.FromBase64String(encryptedData); byte[] originalData = ProtectedData.Unprotect(dataToDecrypt, Entropy, DataProtectionScope.CurrentUser); return Encoding.Unicode.GetString(originalData); } </code></pre> George
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