There is a 3rd party code, which returns me the string "Nmimtech1" in form of a byte[] array.
object password1 = pProps.GetProperty("PASSWORD");
(Its third party ESRI library code, so do not bother) Now i convert it to byte[]
byte[] pswrdbyte = password1 as byte[]
The content of this byte array are
[0] 2 byte
[1] 0 byte
[2] 0 byte
[3] 0 byte
[4] 20 byte
[5] 0 byte
[6] 0 byte
[7] 0 byte
[8] 200 byte
[9] 115 byte
[10] 39 byte
[11] 180 byte
[12] 150 byte
[13] 100 byte
[14] 74 byte
[15] 44 byte
[16] 7 byte
[17] 215 byte
[18] 137 byte
[19] 50 byte
[20] 212 byte
[21] 138 byte
[22] 56 byte
[23] 241 byte
[24] 134 byte
[25] 51 byte
[26] 75 byte
[27] 0 byte
Now i have tried each and every way to convert it back to "Nmimtech1
string str = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(pswrdbyte);
returns "\0\0\0\0\0\0?s'??dJ,\a??2??8??3K\0"
string str1 = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetString(pswrdbyte);
returns "\0\0珈됧撖ⱊ휇㊉諔㎆K"
string str2 = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(pswrdbyte);
returns "\0\0\0\0\0\0�s'��dJ,\a2Ԋ8�3K\0"
string str3 = System.Text.Encoding.UTF32.GetString(pswrdbyte);
returns "�����"
string str4 = System.Text.Encoding.UTF7.GetString(pswrdbyte);
returns "\0\0\0\0\0\0Ès'´dJ,\a×2Ô8ñ3K\0"
string str5 = System.Text.Encoding.BigEndianUnicode.GetString(pswrdbyte);
returns "Ȁ\0᐀\0졳➴除䨬ߗ褲풊㣱蘳䬀"
string str6 = pswrdbyte.ToString();
returns "System.Byte[]" (weird)
string s = BitConverter.ToString(pswrdbyte);
returns "02-00-00-00-14-00-00-00-C8-73-27-B4-96-64-4A-2C-07-D7-89-32-D4-8A-38-F1-86-33-4B-00". Now this makes a little sense, but can you tell me how to convert this hex string back to "Nmimtech1" programmatically?
Sorry guys, The password returned from Thirdparty code is encrypted, and i figured out we cant decrypt it. Rather, to store it locally, i will need to store the encrypted form. Thanks