----- Original Message ----- From: Bodo Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 8:38 PM Subject: Re: DES [...] > > I am able to do this with ssleay: > > ssleay.exe enc -des -in input.txt -out output.txt -e -a -k mypassword > > > > I believe the des functions des_enc_read() or des_fcrypt() should be useful > > for me, [...] > > They are not. As noted in crypto/des/enc_read.c, > [...] > > And des_fcrypt is an implementation of the standard Unix password > encryption algorithm, which is just one way. Also, DES keys are too > short to be really secure -- for "openssl enc", you could use, say, > -des_ede instead of -des. (-des_ede is two-key Triple-DES). Great, thank you. I began testing with -des just to begin with easier things first (which weren't so easy for me, actually;)). > Look at its implementation (apps/enc.c) to see what applications can > do to use the ciphers. Wow, nothing easy for me to understand in that file.. I even tried compiling it (NT, VC++5) , but failed to do so. I'm now trying to understand how it works, even if I didn't find what I expected, say some des_* encoding functions called! Isn't there some sort of tutorial which I can read? I need to be introduced in the matter, testing without knowing theory is stupid. Thanks for helping, albe. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
