Documentation regarding OfficeCryptCodecHandler encodingKey

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Documentation regarding OfficeCryptCodecHandler encodingKey

Forum: General Discussion

Creator: Yingtong Li

Created: 2025-11-19

Updated: 2025-11-19

Yingtong Li - 2025-11-19

Thanks for this amazing project, it's an incredible resource on MS Access interoperability.

The comment on line 68 of OfficeCryptCodecHandler suggests the value of the encoding key might be meaningless aside from being zero/nonzero. In other places (e.g. AgileEncryptionProvider) the encoding key is used in the decryption. Hence I wondered if it might be possible to amend the comment in OfficeCryptCodecHandler.

(This would be a very useful comment for readers, because it is different to what is suggested by the official Microsoft docs)

I was hoping to submit a patch to update the comment, but it looks like submitting patches is disabled on this SourceForge repo.

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- James Ahlborn - 2025-11-19
  
  yeah, you are right, that comment is misleading. you can just include a patch as part of a bug report.
  
  Last edit: James Ahlborn 2025-11-19
  
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