Perhaps, but it's honestly not even the talk about encryption that bothers me so much as the people who just "assume" things without asking. And, when I've asked questions in the past, I seem to get responses like, "why do you even want to do that?" So, I figured at minimum I'd explain that it's for a key and that it has to be a byte array.
Completely untrue as my original post did not say anything about what methods i may or may not use.
Again, you are ASSUMING that I'm trying to emulate what a web page does exactly.
I full well know how SSH keys work. Again, you're ASSUMING i do not.
Things DO work exactly now i described them in some cases. You think you know it all, but you don't. There are different levels of encryption based on the needs of the user/developer and whether it's just a matter of preventing repeat (basically copy and paste) attacks, NSA level security or millions of possibilities in between.
I mean, technically Morse Code is a form of encryption, it's just widely known now and able to be decrypted by literally anybody.
You seem to have a single view of what encryption is, but you are wrong. Please see the following definition.