Re: Generating Keys in Triple-DES encryption

2008-03-27 Thread jimmy bahuleyan
Ambarish Mitra wrote: Ambarish Mitra wrote: Hi Jimmy, Thanks for your response. Kindly find my thoughts inlined.. Question: So, the question is: How can we generate a key for Triple DES encryption and write out the same in a file? Simple answer for 'how to generate a key for a symmetric ciph

RE: Generating Keys in Triple-DES encryption

2008-03-27 Thread Ambarish Mitra
Ambarish Mitra wrote: > Hi Jimmy, Thanks for your response. Kindly find my thoughts inlined.. > >> Question: >> So, the question is: How can we generate a key for Triple DES encryption and >> write out the same in a file? >> > > Simple answer for 'how to generate a key for a symmetric cipher' is

Re: Generating Keys in Triple-DES encryption

2008-03-27 Thread jimmy bahuleyan
Ambarish Mitra wrote: Hi Jimmy, Thanks for your response. Kindly find my thoughts inlined.. Question: So, the question is: How can we generate a key for Triple DES encryption and write out the same in a file? Simple answer for 'how to generate a key for a symmetric cipher' is 'use a pseudo-

RE: Generating Keys in Triple-DES encryption

2008-03-26 Thread Ambarish Mitra
Hi Jimmy, Thanks for your response. Kindly find my thoughts inlined.. > Question: > So, the question is: How can we generate a key for Triple DES encryption and > write out the same in a file? > Simple answer for 'how to generate a key for a symmetric cipher' is 'use a pseudo-random generator' to

Re: Generating Keys in Triple-DES encryption

2008-03-26 Thread jimmy bahuleyan
Ambarish Mitra wrote: Hi all, Background: My application reads an encrpyted-base64 password from a config file and decrypts the same inside the application. The password is encryped using Triple-DES algorithm. To encrypt and base64 the actual password, a stand-alone utility is provided. We run

Generating Keys in Triple-DES encryption

2008-03-26 Thread Ambarish Mitra
Hi all, Background: My application reads an encrpyted-base64 password from a config file and decrypts the same inside the application. The password is encryped using Triple-DES algorithm. To encrypt and base64 the actual password, a stand-alone utility is provided. We run this utility, and then c