On Tue, Aug 11, 2009, MusicAndy wrote: > > Hi folks. Well almost got things to work the way i want to :jumping: > > One more question. The salt format of a file in DES3. > > I notice that the file that has been encrypted with the use of salt has > Salted__ followed by bytes of data. > If i read this from a stream, do i strip the Salted__ part off and then read > the next 8 bytes of data as the salt encryption? >
Well it's a salt value. You pass that to EVP_BytesToKey(). The data following the salt is the encrypted stream so you pass that to EVP_DecryptUpdate() or similar. Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer. Commercial tech support now available see: http://www.openssl.org ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [email protected] Automated List Manager [email protected]
