check for encryption

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hi,

how to check whether the data is encrypted or not.??
and how to control error if we are tryin to get value by decrypting which is not actually encrypted??

Posted 18-Aug-11 1:48am

Arpit khare

Updated 18-Aug-11 1:51am

Simon Bang Terkildsen

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Simon Bang Terkildsen · Answer 1 · 2011-08-18T01:52:00

Solution 1

can you read it? then it's not encrypted

Posted 18-Aug-11 1:52am

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Arpit khare 18-Aug-11 8:01am

i mean to say that if i m decrypting the data which is coming from XML that is actually not save in encrypted form then it gives exception so how i check this condition.

Simon Bang Terkildsen 18-Aug-11 8:21am

yeah the answer was meant as a joke, see John's answer.
if it's data you store yourself I would personally just encrypt it all, unless ofcourse the workload of is so high that decrypting data everytime becomes an issue.

#realJSOP · Answer 2 · 2011-08-18T02:04:00

Solution 2

The only way you can tell programatically is by trying to decrypt it and handle any exception that is thrown.

Posted 18-Aug-11 2:04am

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