Furthermore, why when it is decrypting does it appear to be overwritting with these characters
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> MusicAndy wrote: > > 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-tp24914436p24916803.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]
