Ambarish Mitra wrote:
Hi Jimmy, Thanks for your response. Kindly find my thoughts inlined..
Question:
So, the question is: How can we generate a key for Triple DES encryption and
write out the same in a file?
Simple answer for 'how to generate a key for a symmetric cipher' is 'use
a pseudo-random generator' to generate key/IV pairs of desired length.
--- This will be sufficient for my case. Is there a way to generate the same
from the command line,
or we have to generate in a program using "DES_random_key". I could not find a way to do from the
command line.
$openssl rand -base64 <number of bytes>
-jb
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