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Hi, generic Java/Kotlin question:
Can I always swap the usage of a `ByteArray` to a `String` and the otherway arround ?
I'm doing some crypto and `Cipher` is using `ByteArray` as its input but i want to put the input inside a `data class` and `data class` are not happy with `Arrays`.
So can i simply convert the the ByteArray to string to store inside my data class and re-convert the string to bytearray when i need to pass it to a cipher ?

This is extremely awkward due to multi-word code points. Strings expect to work as text, arbitrary data doesn't work as text. If you want to do it you want to do something like base64 encode your data (or similar higher density encodings like PDF uses)