MySQL encode/decode

[John Hamilton]

Is there a simple function call in the connector or even a source example of how the encode/decode functions in MySQL work.

This would be helpful in cases where we don't want to actually decrypt/decode data until after the db connection is gone.

This may sound a little weird but I don't want to decode info just to encode it just to transfer it to a disconnected client over let's say a webservice. I would rather leave it encoded (AES, DES, or Encode) and do the decryption at the endpoint.

Is there a way to get some C# fragments that would perform this for the different encrypt/decrypt methods in MySQL?