Pass const unsigned char* to C# DLL

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at first i would like to mention that i am new to c++.

i am working on a c++ core system server side application(unmanaged), C# auth system server side application and C# client side application. i am using a simple 2 functions to encrypt/decrypt packets between server`s and client Encrypt and Decrypt is working perfect between 2 c# apps (client and auth system server)

What I have tried:

i tried to use the same system class`s/functions in C++ core server using it like

using System::IO;
using System::Security::Cryptography;

but failed to complete the full code in C++ app.

so that`s got me thinking of how about i create .dll in C# contains those two functions to encrypt/decrypt data in c++ ?

and here is C# .dll code Cryptography

using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System;

namespace __Security
{

    [Guid("413A1D2D-B7A8-42D7-8751-EB5D87F98873")]
    [ClassInterface(ClassInterfaceType.None)]
    [ProgId("__Security.Cryptography")]
    public class Cryptography : ICryptography
    {
        string CryptographyKey = "TESTINGKEY";
        public char[] Decrypt(char[] IN)
        {
            char[] OUT;
            OUT = null;
            try
            {
                byte[] CLEAR_IN = IN.Select(c => (byte)c).ToArray();
                using (Aes encryptor = Aes.Create())
                {
                    Rfc2898DeriveBytes pdb = new Rfc2898DeriveBytes(CryptographyKey, new byte[] { 0x49, 0x76, 0x61, 0x6e, 0x20, 0x4d, 0x65, 0x64, 0x76, 0x65, 0x64, 0x65, 0x76 });
                    encryptor.Key = pdb.GetBytes(32);
                    encryptor.IV = pdb.GetBytes(16);
                    using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
                    {
                        using (CryptoStream cs = new CryptoStream(ms, encryptor.CreateDecryptor(), CryptoStreamMode.Write))
                        {
                            cs.Write(CLEAR_IN, 0, CLEAR_IN.Length);
                            cs.Close();
                        }
                        OUT = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetChars(ms.ToArray());
                    }
                }
            }
            catch(System.Exception E) { Debugger.Debug(E.Message); Debugger.Debug(E.StackTrace); };
            return OUT;
        }
    }
}

ICryptography

using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

namespace __Security
{
    [Guid("B057AB41-D218-44AC-BEE6-66D41AC1AD90")]
    [InterfaceType(ComInterfaceType.InterfaceIsDual)]
    public interface ICryptography
    {
        [DispId(1)]
        char[] Encrypt(char[] IN);
        char[] Decrypt(char[] IN);
    };
}

and in c++ application i made something like this:

#include <list>
#import "__Security.tlb" raw_interfaces_only
using namespace __Security;

unsigned char* Kernel::Decrypt(unsigned char* _IN, int Len)
{
    HRESULT hr = CoInitialize(NULL);
    ICryptographyPtr _Cryptography(__uuidof(Cryptography));
    SAFEARRAY* SAFEARRAY_IN = GetSafeArray(_IN, 0);

    SAFEARRAY* *SAFEARRAY_OUT;//this is for return value
    HRESULT hr3 = _Cryptography->Decrypt(SAFEARRAY_IN, SAFEARRAY_OUT);

    if (!SUCCEEDED(hr3))// always fails
    {
        _com_error err(hr3);
        LPCTSTR errMsg = err.ErrorMessage();
        _tprintf(errMsg);
    }
    CoUninitialize();
    unsigned char* _OUT = new unsigned  char[Len];
    return _OUT;
}

SAFEARRAY* Kernel::GetSafeArray(const unsigned char* source, int codePage)
{
    int Size = sizeof(source);
    CComSafeArray<BSTR> result(1);
        BSTR bstr = (BSTR)source;
        BSTR bstr2 = SysAllocString(bstr);
        HRESULT hr = result.SetAt(0, bstr2, FALSE);
        if (FAILED(hr))
            AtlThrow(hr);
    return result.Detach();
}

So when i tried to debug C# .dll i got an exception message with

SafeArrayTypeMismatchException  

Now i need to know how to safely send the const unsigned char* to C# dll and receive it back after doing encryption/decryption.

if that`s is the wrong way i go on... so how do i convert my C# Cryptography class/functions into c++ with to be compatible with all 3 system apps.