Honestly, I don't understand what encoding you are talking about. Just write/read data as a byte array. You will read back exactly you write.
Thank you, Andrey On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Brian Tarbox <tar...@cabotresearch.com>wrote: > We have a requirement to store our data encrypted. > Our encryption system turns our various strings into byte arrays. So far > so good. > > The problem is that the bytes in our byte arrays are sometimes > negative...but when we look at them in the cassandra-cli (or try > to programatically retrieve them) the bytes are all positive so we of > course don't find the expected data. > > We have tried Byte encoding and UTF8 encoding without luck. In looking at > the Byte validator in particular I see nothing that ought to care about the > sign of the bytes, but perhaps I'm missing something. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated, thanks. > > Brian Tarbox >