Encrypt function returning Byte Array instead of string

[rspicer]

Hi there! I'm new to using this library, so forgive any stupid questions :). When I call the encrypt function, it returns a byte array... although, in the documentation, it says it's supposed to return a string. My implementation relies on the ciphertext being returned as a string - if I'm missing something, and it can't be, is there an encoding for the byte array I can use to convert it in to a string?

Thanks for your help!

[mattsb42-aws]

Hmm, the docs should all indicate a bytes return value; I'll check on that and fix the points I missed.

It is intentional that it is returning bytes rather than a string, as it it returning the raw encrypted message, which will almost always include non-ascii characters. If you need a string we generally recommend base64 encoding the bytes.

[rspicer]

That works - cheers mate! Thanks much for the quick answer!