I have a requirement to implement cross-platform 3DES encryption (driven by a text pass phrase) between Microsoft and various UNIX platforms. Both platforms use the vendor supplied libraries: In the case of UNIX that's OpenSSL, and in the case of Microsoft it's the Windows routines declared by <wincrypt.h>.
Invoking 3DES on either platform looks straightforward, except for the transformation of the pass phrase into a key. On the Microsoft platform, I can hash the pass phrase which is directly passed into the 3DES processing. The OpenSSL environment provides DES_string_to_key() but its use is discouraged in place of a cryptographic hash function. .. but the man page doesn't define a standard procedure to do so. So, I am open to suggestions (read: NEED HELP) as to how to consistently use a pass phrase with both libraries. -ahd- -- "OS/2, the system so good you can't install it just once" -- Dave Gomberg ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
