So Steve, do I strip out the "salted__" characters plus the following 8 bits?
Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: > > 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] > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Des3-and-the-salt-option-tp24914436p24916632.html Sent from the OpenSSL - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [email protected] Automated List Manager [email protected]
