Jeff, I ran into the exact same error. Took me a little to figure it out, but I wrote a post explaining how to get around it all:
http://blog.cutterscrossing.com/index.cfm/2008/3/11/ColdFusion-8-Gotcha-The-Decrypt-Function Steve "Cutter" Blades Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer _____________________________ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com Jeff Becker wrote: > Any idea why the following code works in CF7 but not when placed in a CF8 > environment?? > > <cfset key = "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"> > <cfset encrypted = "bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb"> > <cfoutput>#Decrypt(encrypted, key, "AES")#"</cfoutput> > > > The error in CF8 is: "An error occurred while trying to encrypt or decrypt > your input string: The input and output encodings are not same.." > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:301734 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4

