Hello Stella, Tuesday, June 04, 2002, 11:14:59 AM, you wrote:
SP> Hi, SP> I was wondering if someone could clarify this for me. I'm trying to decrypt SP> a string which has been encrypted in 3DES ECB mode. SP> I'm using the command line utility and a program I have written to do this. SP> According to the EVP_EncryptInit.html, I should use the cipher SP> EVP_des_ede3(). This is correct! SP> However in the command line utility I don't see any 3DES ECB cipher. SP> According to the 'enc' man page the cipher 'des-ede3' is an alias for SP> 'des-ede3-cbc'. Maybe if you supply an IV then it is aliased to des-ede3-cbc ?! SP> Are both of these correct? If so, shouldn't there be a standard naming SP> convention for these ciphers? and how do I encrypt/decrypt a string in 3DES SP> EC mode using the command line utility? openssl des-ede3 -iv 0 -other-options-here ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]