On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Mack Stevenson wrote:
> Hi Bear,
>
> Thank you for replying.
>
>
> > > - I gather that it's a bad idea to just encrypt all the files with the
> > > passphrase chosen by the user, right?
> >
> >You don't use the passphrase *directly*, but you should certainly
> >use the user's
Hi Bear,
Thank you for replying.
> > - I gather that it's a bad idea to just encrypt all the files with the
> > passphrase chosen by the user, right?
>
>You don't use the passphrase *directly*, but you should certainly
>use the user's passphrase. Run it through a cryptographic hash
>and use th
Howdy,
I don't have any experience in coding apps which use cryptography, but I
don't want to screw up, so I come looking for some friendly advice.
What I would like to do is to use the openssl simmetric crypto library to
encrypt local files, and decrypt them with a user supplied passphrase.
