kairon Posted December 15, 2002 Share Posted December 15, 2002 I was wondering what Encryption Algorithm is the easiest to work with and is reasonably secure and fast and if there was a good C Library to work with that encryption algorithm?Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 azcodemonkey Posted December 15, 2002 Share Posted December 15, 2002 Base64 is "reasonably" secure in that your average person won't be able to crack it. There are plenty of free encoder/decoder libraries available, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Steven Posted December 15, 2002 Share Posted December 15, 2002 I was wondering what Encryption Algorithm is the easiest to work with and is reasonably secure and fast and if there was a good C Library to work with that encryption algorithm?Thanks in advance. create your own, because base64 is garbage, you can easily decode in, a matter of seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 freestyle Posted December 15, 2002 Share Posted December 15, 2002 You could try using the CryptoApi functions included in the latest Platform SDK from Microsoft. The MS Cryptography home page is here with Cryptography functions listed here. The CryptEncrypt function has two example C programs for encrypting and decrypting files. Hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 RevNX Posted December 15, 2002 Share Posted December 15, 2002 Yeah I just make my own, My friend made one once that made his entire messages a bunch of "moo"'s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 freestyle Posted December 16, 2002 Share Posted December 16, 2002 Yeah I just make my own, My friend made one once that made his entire messages a bunch of "moo"'s So if your friends message was "moomoo moomoo moo moo moo moomoo" (or similar), how exactly could this be decrypted to a legible sentence. I think your friend had better stop whatever he is smoking :D . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Tobbe Posted December 16, 2002 Share Posted December 16, 2002 RC6 is good. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 DrunkenMaster Posted December 16, 2002 Share Posted December 16, 2002 http://dmoz.org/Science/Math/Applications/...ming_Libraries/ You might want to check here. Blowfish is by far the best I know of. Quick, relable, robust, and well tested over the years. The 512 k + versions haven't been cracked yet except for some gov't agencies........ hey where are you taking me???? :=) Kidding aside, I'd seriously recommend Blowfish. Over the other API's recommended here if you're looking for better security. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 freestyle Posted December 16, 2002 Share Posted December 16, 2002 At work we use 3DES, but the data is only stored on a SmartCard (microprocessor) with only 1K of memory. But if the card is accessed 3 times incorrectly it becomes useless, all-in-all pretty secure, well for us anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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I was wondering what Encryption Algorithm is the easiest to work with and is reasonably secure and fast and if there was a good C Library to work with that encryption algorithm?Thanks in advance.
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