[Question] Why is Protect(string) and Unprotect(string) not part of IDataProtector?

[Legogris]

When writing unit tests, it helps a lot being able to mock the results of these functions depending on the input.

Right now it is a big hassle doing this since we have to mock the byte-array versions and then mimic the internal implementations of the extension methods in DataProtectionCommonExtensions. I can't even get it to work properly for a particular use case. It would be very beneficial to have the directly on the interface.

[blowdart]

What are you unit testing here? Your own data protection implementation?

[aspnet-hello]

This issue was moved to dotnet/aspnetcore#2518