On Monday, 17 May 2021 at 16:54:18 UTC, noid wrote:
Hi! I am pretty new on Dlang and I wanted to make a small
password manager that used some sort of encryption on a file
(for example AES256) and save a password to decrypt it later,
so you can copy the password.
I haven't done this specifically myself, but if I did, I'd
probably use bindings to the C libsodium and let it do most the
encryption work.
this looks reasonable but again I haven't used myself.
https://code.dlang.org/packages/libsodiumd
Since it is a simple binding to the C library, you'd use it the
same way you would from C itself and can look up tutorials for
that and easily translate to D.
I also don't know how I could store the password (for example
in a SHA256 hash) for decrypting the files.
Now this I have done myself, and again, I delegated the real work
to a C library called argon2.
My library is
https://code.dlang.org/packages/arsd-official%3Aargon2
And my docs:
http://arsd-official.dpldocs.info/arsd.argon2.html
If you get the C argon2 library installed, then you can use that
D module easily with the `encode` and `verify` functions.
