well yes:

$ cat in.txt
hello
$ openssl enc -e -rc4 -out out.bin -k mysecretkey -in in.txt
$ openssl enc -d -rc4 -in out.bin -k mysecretkey
hello

and the openssl api should be compatible with the binary cli right??

Regards

On Thu 09 Mar 2006 18:05, Kyle Hamilton wrote:
> 'bad magic number' could actually be an OS error.  Has that openssl
> binary worked for you before on other commands?
>
> -Kyle H
>
> On 3/9/06, Manuel Arguelles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I'm new here, I'm trying to encrypt / decrypt text in a file using the
> > rc4, the problem is that I'm not getting good results, here's what I'm
> > doing for encryption:
> >
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > #include <stdlib.h>
> > #include <openssl/bio.h>
> > #include <openssl/evp.h>
> >
> > int main(void)
> > {
> >         char buf[1024];
> >         int total, len, written;
> >         BIO *file = BIO_new_file("out.bin", "w");
> >         BIO *buffer = BIO_new(BIO_f_buffer());
> >         BIO *cipher = BIO_new(BIO_f_cipher());
> >
> >         strcpy(buf, "Simple Text to Encrypt");
> >
> >         BIO_set_cipher(cipher, EVP_rc4(), "mysecretkey", NULL, 1);
> >
> >         BIO_push (cipher, buffer);
> >         BIO_push (buffer, file);
> >
> >         len = strlen(buf);
> >         written = 0;
> >         for (total = 0; total < len; total += written) {
> >                 if ((written = BIO_write(cipher, buf + total, len -
> > total)) <= 0) {
> >                         if (BIO_should_retry(cipher)) {
> >                                 written =0;
> >                                 continue;
> >                         }
> >                         break;
> >                 }
> >         }
> >         BIO_flush(cipher);
> >         BIO_free_all(cipher);
> > }
> >
> > compiled it, and when executed I get a out.bin, then when I try to
> > decrypt it it fails:
> >
> > $ openssl enc -d -rc4 -in out.bin -k mysecretkey
> > bad magic number
> >
> > what I'm I doing wrong? maybe the -k -K -iv options? as BIO_set_cipher as
> > well maybe?
> >
> > Regards and thank for your time
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