Thank you so much for many years of hard work and devotion.

This isn’t really an issue but a question. Unfortunately the Google group is down. 

I am working with a database of cipher texts derived using PBKDF2 HMAC SHA2 256 key derivation function in Python Django. I am migrating the application to C++ so I chose  Crypto++.

Unfortunately I couldn’t get to generate equivalent ciphers using the same parameters as used in Django. This is probably what Django does that I couldn’t get to do with the library: 
```
b64encode.b64encode(hash).decode("ascii").strip()
```
The `hash` I am wont to believe is a sequence of bytes which Django produces with the hashing algorithm PBKDF2 HMAC SHA2 256 and it encodes to Base64 bytes before then decoding to ASCII characters.

I am wont to believe that Crypto++ does something similar. It produces a sequence of bytes, then the user can encode the byte sequence to Base64. 

Which character set is then used for representation? **UTF8**? **ASCII**? **UTF16**?

Your answer will be very much appreciated.
Django cipher texts not matching Crypto++ cipher texts.
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repo:cryptopp
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Title : Django cipher texts not matching Crypto++ cipher texts.
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Thank you so much for many years of hard work and devotion.

This isn’t really an issue but a question. Unfortunately the Google group is down. 

I am working with a database of cipher texts derived using PBKDF2 HMAC SHA2 256 key derivation function in Python Django. I am migrating the application to C++ so I chose  Crypto++.

Unfortunately I couldn’t get to generate equivalent ciphers using the same parameters as used in Django. This is probably what Django does that I couldn’t get to do with the library: 
```
b64encode.b64encode(hash).decode("ascii").strip()
```
The `hash` I am wont to believe is a sequence of bytes which Django produces with the hashing algorithm PBKDF2 HMAC SHA2 256 and it encodes to Base64 bytes before then decoding to ASCII characters.

I am wont to believe that Crypto++ does something similar. It produces a sequence of bytes, then the user can encode the byte sequence to Base64. 

Which character set is then used for representation? **UTF8**? **ASCII**? **UTF16**?

Your answer will be very much appreciated.
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