title: How to write encrypted data to a text file?
body: <p>I have a project where we write a small amount of data to a file every 5 minutes. The idea is to look at how this data changes over a period of hours, days, and weeks. </p>
  
  <p>One of the requirements is to store this data in a secure format. We already have an encryption scheme for sending this data across a network as a byte[] array via DataI/O streams. </p>
  
  <p>The question I have is this, is there a way to write encrypted byte[] arrays to a text file in such a way that I can read them back out? My biggest problem at the moment is that I'm reading Strings from the files, which messes up the byte[] arrays. </p>
  
  <p>Any thoughts or pointers on where to go?</p>