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Strongbox and 1.9's Encoding

Really it's 1.9's OpenSSL interaction with Encoding. When Ruby's OpenSSL lib decrypts something it can't know what the encoding of the original String was, so it defaults to Encoding:ASCII-8BIT, which is Ruby's way of saying "raw-bytes". Depending on the encoding and content of strings in your app concatenation with Encoding:ASCII-8BIT strings may raise an Encoding::CompatibilityError. To work around this, change the encoding of the decrypted string with #.force_encoding.

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