Encryption is a passing hobby of mine, but I'm not a coder,
so take what I say with this big grain of salt.
Speaking of sale, crypt is pretty breakable. Most modern
Linux distros use MD5 hashing. Problem with this is that
it's a one-way hash which will be useless for your use.
Best bet is to take a look at Bruce Schneier's "Applied
Cryptography" which includes source code and examples for
about 50 different crypto algorithms.
You can also check out Bruce's web site at http://www.counterpane.com/
-Mark
Cole Tuininga wrote:
>
> Hi folks - I have a couple of encryption related questions for the
> programmers in the group.
>
> I'm in the process of coding an application that I need to have store
> data files. Now, some of these data files will need to be encrypted (at
> the option of the user). The basic implementation concept I planned to
> use was to take a static value, say "00000000" and encrypt it using the
> password as the salt. Before I put much thought into it, I planned on
> using just the good 'ole crypt(3). But then I got to thinking about how
> easy that was to brute force, and unless I'm mistaken, it is not
> portable between flavors of Un*x?
>
> In any case, I was wondering if anybody would care to recommend any (C
> based) GPL'd encryption packages for this use? Any you would recommend
> against?
>
> Oh yeah. Linux rules.
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