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Added notes about operations with stream-based data
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Signed-off-by: Whit Waldo <whit.waldo@innovian.net>
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## Encryption/Decryption with strings
See [EncryptDecryptExample.cs](./EncryptDecryptExample.cs) for an example of using `DaprClient` for basic string-based encryption and decryption operations as performed against UTF-8 encoded byte arrays.
See [EncryptDecryptStringExample.cs](./EncryptDecryptStringExample.cs) for an example of using `DaprClient` for basic
string-based encryption and decryption operations as performed against UTF-8 encoded byte arrays.

## Encryption/Decryption with streams
See [EncryptDecryptFileStreamExample.cs](./EncryptDecryptFileStreamExample.cs) for an example of using `DaprClient`
to perform an encrypt and decrypt operation against a stream of data. In the example, we stream a local file to the
sidecar to encrypt and write the result (as it's streamed back) to an in-memory buffer. Once the operation fully
completes, we perform the decrypt operation against this in-memory buffer and write the decrypted result back out to a
temporary file.

In either operation, rather than load the entire stream into memory and send all at once to the
sidecar as we do in the other string-based example (as this might cause you to run out of memory either on the
node the app is running on or do the same to the sidecar itself), this example instead breaks the input stream into
more manageable 4KB chunks (a value you can override via the `EncryptionOptions` or `DecryptionOptions` parameters
respectively up to 64KB. Further, rather than waiting for the entire stream to send to the sidecar before the
encryption operation proceeds, it immediately works to process the sidecar response, continuing to minimize resource
usage.

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