Ben:
   Yes thats what i need to do. If you can provide some example, that will
be great.

    Thanks.

// Harshvir


On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Ben Jones <b...@bhjones.com> wrote:

> Well I implemented something very similar recently but using tcp rather
> than udp. In my case,  alice creates a public-private key pair and sends
> public key to bob. Bob then encrypts randomly generated symmetric key (.e.g
> blowish, dsa or aes etc.) with public key and sends the result to alice.
> Alice then decrypts with her private key. Both alice and bob have knowledge
> of symmetric key which can then be used for secure communication.
>
> A clear problem with this is a man-in-the-middle attack. There are
> functions built into the open ssl framework that allows you do create such
> keys manually. If that's what you need to do, I can give a more concrete (
> albeit probably naive) example...
>
> Cheers,
> Ben.
>
>
> On 21 July 2010 15:02, Harshvir Sidhu <hvssi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>     I am trying to use encryption over Client/Server machines. My
>> requirement is that i have to use winsock UDP functions to send and receive
>> data. Is there some mechanism to perform key and cipher exchange in this
>> case, like normally SSL_Connect will do this, but in my case i cannot use
>> that. Is there some suggestion for this?
>>
>> // Harshvir
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