no, you can't

[M.R.]

On 17/10/11 01:37, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 10/16/2011 14:37, sweepslate wrote:
> It's sort of hard to understand what you're trying to accomplish,
> can you give us more details?

To me, it is perfectly obvious what the OP is trying to accomplish:
perform the encryption by supplying the cryptographic key itself,
instead of character string material, from which the key will be
derived by some in-program procedure.

Why does he want to do that makes no difference to the answer,
which is simply: no, unfortunately you can't.

Mark R.