diff --git a/Dalamud.Bootstrap/Bootstrapper.cs b/Dalamud.Bootstrap/Bootstrapper.cs
index f6eec5abc..f39959123 100644
--- a/Dalamud.Bootstrap/Bootstrapper.cs
+++ b/Dalamud.Bootstrap/Bootstrapper.cs
@@ -56,26 +56,19 @@ namespace Dalamud.Bootstrap
 
             var argument = ReadArgumentFromProcess(process);
             
-            var newTick = Environment.TickCount;
+            var newTick = (uint)Environment.TickCount;
             var newKey = newTick & 0xFFFF_0000; // only the high nibble is used
             
-            var newArgument = argument.Remove("T")
+            var newArgument = argument
+                .Remove("T")
                 .Add("T", $"{newTick}")
                 .ToString();
 
-            // TODO: encode as a encrypted?
-            // TODO: launch it
+            var encryptedArgument = new EncryptedArgument(newArgument, newKey);
+            
+
+            // TODO: launch new exe with the argument from encryptedArgument.ToString()
 
-            //var newCommandLine =
-            // TODO:
-            // .... if arg1 exists
-            // DecodeSqexArg(arguments[1]);
-            // args = ParseArgument()
-            // FindArguments(args, "T")
-            // RemoveArgs(args, "T")
-            // AddArgs(args, "T", newTick)
-            // str = ToString()
-            // EncodeSqexArg(str, newKey)
             
             process.Terminate();
         }
@@ -111,7 +104,7 @@ namespace Dalamud.Bootstrap
                 argument = encryptedArgument.Decrypt(key);
             }
             
-            return ArgumentBuilder.TryParse(argument);
+            return ArgumentBuilder.Parse(argument);
         }
 
         /// <summary>
@@ -143,11 +136,11 @@ namespace Dalamud.Bootstrap
             }
             catch (Exception ex)
             {
-                const string message = "Failed to inject Dalamud library into the process.";
+                var exMessage = $"Failed to inject Dalamud library into the process id {pid}.";
 
                 // Could not inject Dalamud for whatever reason; it could be process is not actually running, insufficient os privilege, or whatever the thing SE put in their game;
                 // Therefore there's not much we can do on this side; You have to trobleshoot by yourself somehow.
-                throw new ProcessException(message, pid, ex);
+                throw new BootstrapException(exMessage, ex);
             }
         }
     }
diff --git a/Dalamud.Bootstrap/SqexArg/ArgumentBuilder.cs b/Dalamud.Bootstrap/SqexArg/ArgumentBuilder.cs
index 954858ecc..fa5193064 100644
--- a/Dalamud.Bootstrap/SqexArg/ArgumentBuilder.cs
+++ b/Dalamud.Bootstrap/SqexArg/ArgumentBuilder.cs
@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ namespace Dalamud.Bootstrap.SqexArg
             m_dict = new Dictionary<string, string>();
         }
 
+        public static ArgumentBuilder Parse(string argument)
+        {
+            
+        }
+
         public ArgumentBuilder Add(string key, string value)
         {
             m_dict.Add(key, value);
diff --git a/Dalamud.Bootstrap/SqexArg/EncryptedArgument.cs b/Dalamud.Bootstrap/SqexArg/EncryptedArgument.cs
index d77948826..36706d4e0 100644
--- a/Dalamud.Bootstrap/SqexArg/EncryptedArgument.cs
+++ b/Dalamud.Bootstrap/SqexArg/EncryptedArgument.cs
@@ -1,9 +1,20 @@
+using System;
+using System.Buffers;
+using System.Buffers.Text;
+using System.Text;
 using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
+using Dalamud.Bootstrap.Crypto;
 
 namespace Dalamud.Bootstrap.SqexArg
 {
     internal sealed class EncryptedArgument
     {
+        private static readonly char[] ChecksumTable =
+        {
+            'f', 'X', '1', 'p', 'G', 't', 'd', 'S',
+            '5', 'C', 'A', 'P', '4', '_', 'V', 'L'
+        };
+        
         /// <summary>
         /// A data that is encrypted and encoded in url-safe variant of base64.
         /// </summary>
@@ -14,12 +25,127 @@ namespace Dalamud.Bootstrap.SqexArg
         /// </summary>
         public char Checksum { get; }
 
-        public EncryptedArgument(string data, char checksum)
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Creates an encrypted argument.
+        /// Unlike other constructors, this does not encrypt the data passed to encdoedData parameter and assume that process is already done.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="encodedData">A string that is already encrypted and encoded to url-safe variant of base64.</param>
+        /// <param name="checksum">A checksum that is used to validate the encryption key.</param>
+        private EncryptedArgument(string encodedData, char checksum)
         {
-            Data = data;
+            Data = encodedData;
             Checksum = checksum;
         }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Encrypts a string with given key.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="plainText">A data that is not encrypted.</param>
+        /// <param name="key">A key that is used to encrypt the data.</param>
+        public EncryptedArgument(string plainText, uint key)
+        {
+            Span<byte> keyBytes = stackalloc byte[8];
+            CreateKey(key, keyBytes);
+            
+            var blowfish = new Blowfish(keyBytes);
+
+            Data = EncodeString(plainText, blowfish);
+            Checksum = GetChecksum(key);
+        }
+
+        private static char GetChecksum(uint key)
+        {
+            // There's no OoB since ChecksumTable has 16 elements and we mask the key with 0xF
+            var index = (key >> 16) & 0x0000_000F;
+
+            return ChecksumTable[index];
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// 
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="argument"></param>
+        /// <param name="key"></param>
+        /// <returns></returns>
+        /// <exception cref="SqexArgException">Thrown when the data property does not have a valid base64 string.</exception>
+        public string Decrypt(uint key)
+        {
+            Span<byte> keyBytes = stackalloc byte[8];
+            CreateKey(key, keyBytes);
+
+            var blowfish = new Blowfish(keyBytes);
+
+            return DecodeString(Data, blowfish);
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// 
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="payload"></param>
+        /// <param name="blowfish"></param>
+        /// <returns></returns>
+        /// <exception cref="SqexArgException">Thrown when the data property does not have a valid base64 string.</exception>
+        private static string DecodeString(string payload, Blowfish blowfish)
+        {
+            // plainText <- utf8Bytes <- encryptedBytes(payload) <- base64(payloadStr)
+
+            // base64: 3 bytes per 4 characters
+            // We also want the size to be aligned with the block size.
+            var dataLength = (payload.Length / 4) * 3;
+            var alignedDataLength = AlignBufferLength(dataLength);
+            var encryptedData = new byte[alignedDataLength];
+            var decryptedData = new byte[alignedDataLength];
+
+            // Converts to standard base64 string so that we can feed it to stdlib
+            var base64Str = payload
+                .Replace('-', '+')
+                .Replace('_', '/');
+            
+            // base64 -> encryptedBytes
+            if (!Convert.TryFromBase64String(base64Str, encryptedData, out var _))
+            {
+                // We don't care about bytesWritten because we can't handle failure anyway
+                throw new SqexArgException($"A payload {payload} does not look like a valid encrypted argument.");
+            }
+
+            // encryptedBytes -> utf8Bytes (decrypted)
+            blowfish.Decrypt(encryptedData, decryptedData);
+
+            // utf8Bytes -> C# string
+            var plainText = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(decryptedData[..dataLength]);
+
+            return plainText;
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Converts plain text string to url-safe variant of base64 string.
+        /// </summary>
+        private static string EncodeString(string plainText, Blowfish blowfish)
+        {
+            // plainText -> utf8Bytes -> encryptedBytes(payload) -> base64(payloadStr)
+
+            // This is needed because we want the size to be aligned with the block size. We'll also need to pad them zero.
+            var utf8BytesLength = AlignBufferLength(Encoding.UTF8.GetByteCount(plainText));
+            var utf8Bytes = new byte[utf8BytesLength];
+
+            // We also need the buffer to store encrypted bytes
+            var encryptedBytes = new byte[utf8Bytes.Length];
+
+            // Now we can the string to UTF8
+            // NOTE: This should fail as GetByteCount returns the exact size required to encode utf8 string, but if this assumption is wrong, please make an issue.
+            Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(plainText, utf8Bytes);
+
+            // Encrypt it
+            blowfish.Encrypt(utf8Bytes, encryptedBytes);
+
+            // Convert to url-safe variant of base64
+            var base64Str = Convert.ToBase64String(encryptedBytes, Base64FormattingOptions.None)
+                    .Replace('+', '-')
+                    .Replace('/', '_');
+
+            return base64Str;
+        }
+
         /// <summary>
         /// 
         /// </summary>
@@ -65,5 +191,23 @@ namespace Dalamud.Bootstrap.SqexArg
         }
 
         public override string ToString() => $"//**sqex0003{Data}{Checksum}**//";
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Formats a key.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="key">A secret key.</param>
+        /// <param name="destination">A buffer where formatted key will be stored. This must be larger than 8 bytes.</param>
+        internal static void CreateKey(uint key, Span<byte> destination)
+        {
+            if (!Utf8Formatter.TryFormat(key, destination, out var _, new StandardFormat('x', 8)))
+            {
+                throw new InvalidOperationException("BUG: Could not create a key");
+            }
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Rounds to next mutliple of block size (i.e. 8 bytes) to satisfy with Blowfish requirements.
+        /// </summary>
+        internal static int AlignBufferLength(int length) => (length + (Blowfish.BlockSize - 1)) & (-Blowfish.BlockSize);
     }
 }
diff --git a/Dalamud.Bootstrap/SqexArg/EncryptedArgumentExtensions.cs b/Dalamud.Bootstrap/SqexArg/EncryptedArgumentExtensions.cs
deleted file mode 100644
index 8b580c7fc..000000000
--- a/Dalamud.Bootstrap/SqexArg/EncryptedArgumentExtensions.cs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,81 +0,0 @@
-using System;
-using System.Buffers;
-using System.Buffers.Text;
-using System.Text;
-using Dalamud.Bootstrap.Crypto;
-
-namespace Dalamud.Bootstrap.SqexArg
-{
-    internal static class EncryptedArgumentExtensions
-    {
-        /// <summary>
-        /// 
-        /// </summary>
-        /// <param name="argument"></param>
-        /// <param name="key"></param>
-        /// <returns></returns>
-        /// <exception cref="SqexArgException">Thrown when the data property does not have a valid base64 string.</exception>
-        public static string Decrypt(this EncryptedArgument argument, uint key)
-        {
-            Span<byte> keyBytes = stackalloc byte[8];
-            CreateKey(key, keyBytes);
-
-            var encryptedData = DecodeDataString(argument.Data, out var encryptedDataLength);
-            var decryptedData = new byte[encryptedData.Length];
-
-            var blowfish = new Blowfish(keyBytes);
-            blowfish.Decrypt(encryptedData, decryptedData);
-
-            return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(decryptedData[..encryptedDataLength]);
-        }
-
-        /// <summary>
-        /// Formats a key.
-        /// </summary>
-        /// <param name="key">A secret key.</param>
-        /// <param name="destination">A buffer where formatted key will be stored. This must be larger than 8 bytes.</param>
-        private static void CreateKey(uint key, Span<byte> destination)
-        {
-            if (!Utf8Formatter.TryFormat(key, destination, out var _, new StandardFormat('x', 8)))
-            {
-                throw new InvalidOperationException("BUG: Could not create a key");
-            }
-        }
-
-        /// <summary>
-        /// Converts the data string to bytes. It also allocates more bytes than actual data contained in base64 string for Blowfish.
-        /// </summary>
-        /// <param name="payload">A url-safe variant of base64 string.</param>
-        /// <param name="payload">A data length that is actually written to the buffer.</param>
-        private static byte[] DecodeDataString(string payload, out int dataLength)
-        {
-            var base64Str = payload
-                .Replace('-', '+')
-                .Replace('_', '/');
-
-            // base64: 3 bytes per 4 characters
-            dataLength = (payload.Length / 4) * 3;
-
-            // round to next mutliple of block size which is what Blowfish can process. (i.e. 8 bytes)
-            var alignedLength = (dataLength + (Blowfish.BlockSize - 1)) & (-Blowfish.BlockSize);
-
-            var buffer = new byte[alignedLength];
-
-            if (!Convert.TryFromBase64String(base64Str, buffer, out var _))
-            {
-                throw new SqexArgException($"A payload {payload} does not look like a valid encrypted argument.");
-            }
-
-            return buffer;
-        }
-
-        private static string EncodeUrlSafeBase64(byte[] payload)
-        {
-            var payloadStr = Convert.ToBase64String(payload);
-
-            return payloadStr
-                .Replace('+', '-')
-                .Replace('/', '_');
-        }
-    }
-}