I think the real question is how secure it needs to be. Regards Leigh www.smootharm.com
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Phil Middlemiss Sent: Tuesday, 11 July 2006 1:25 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] Encryption / Decrption There are many ways to do that. You could, for example store the password as a collection of constant Byte values and put them together as chars when using the password. I use something similar, but not quite that. You could convolute it many ways. Phil. Robert martin wrote: > Hi > > Yeah my app is actually just encrypt some text and store it in its > DB. It will Decrypt the information for processing purposes. The > DCPcrypt stuff looks great. However now im left with what to use as a > password and how to store that in my app. > > > > > > Rob Martin > Software Engineer > > phone +64 03 377 0495 > fax +64 03 377 0496 > web www.chreos.com > > Wild Software Ltd > > > > Conor Boyd wrote: >> No problems. >> >> Is your app going to be doing both the encrypting and decrypting at >> either end? >> >> Because if it's not (and the recipient of the encrypted data is using >> some other standard PKI tool to decrypt the data), then you are going to >> have to look at certificates and how your app manages them. >> >> Good luck. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Conor >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> On Behalf Of Robert martin >> >> Thanks Conor >> >> I am looking at building it into a shipping app so this seems like a bit >> of a no go. But thanks for the info :) >> >> Conor Boyd wrote: >> >>> Yes, MS does provide a crypto API on most Windows platforms, exposed >>> as a COM DLL (known as CAPICOM). It's based around Certificate >>> Services, which you can configure using MMC (Microsoft Management >>> >> Console?). >> >>> To configure Certificate Services, run MMC from the command line, >>> choose File, Add/Remove Snap-in, hit the Add button, choose >>> Certificates, click OK. >>> >>> But you'll then have to go away and read up on certificates, and how >>> to use the Crypto API, etc. Googling should get you a long way there. >>> >>> Here are a few links to get you started: >>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/seccr >>> yp >>> to/security/using_capicom.asp >>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/seccr >>> yp >>> to/security/cryptography_objects.asp >>> http://www.awprofessional.com/articles/article.asp?p=31065&seqNum=1 >>> http://www.seifried.org/security/cryptography/crypto-book/index.html >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Delphi mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list > [email protected] > http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > > > _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
