There is not cryptographic API in the PalmOS. Write your own or find some
decent C source that ports well. Good luck!
Steve
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>To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Unix like crypt()
>Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 17:44:19 -0700
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>You're right but, since they are algorithms for digital signature I
>have to keep a private key in somewhere. Using a crypt() like
>function, such as fcrypt(), I don't have to store the plain password
>anywhere. Using the fcrypt algorithm the encrypted password is
>generated using salt wich is not a private key since it is stored as
>is in the first two chars of the encrypted password. I think this is
>correct but. If I'm wrong, I don't know how to use those MD4 and MD5
>algorithms, they take three args. How do I use them?
>
>Thanks for help!
>Leonardo Holanda
>(Brazil)
>
>--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Igor Mozolevsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > --On 09 July 2001 22:14 +0000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > I would like to have the following Unix like function:
> > >
> > > crypt(password, salt);
> > >
> > > wich is not reversible and take two args:
> > > password: a string password to be encrypted;
> > > salt: two random chars.
> >
> > Neither MD4 nor MD5 are reversible... Why can't you use them?
> >
> > IM
> >
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