Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:20:01 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: Marc W <mwlist@akira.lanfear.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: encrypting strings in C Message-ID: <20001212092001.A17968@jonc.itouch> In-Reply-To: <200012112016.MAA25998@akira.lanfear.com>; from mwlist@akira.lanfear.com on Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 12:16:15PM -0800 References: <200012112016.MAA25998@akira.lanfear.com>
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On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 12:16:15PM -0800, Marc W wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> Are there any standard library routines for encrypting strings? In one
> of the programs I'm writing, I've got a string that I want to write out to
> a file, but it is sensitive information. Apart from setting the file
> permissions to try and restrict access to it, is there some library routine
> I can call to enrypt it in some way? Something that worked across all
> UN*X platforms would be preferred ....
There's always crypt(3). crypt_get_format() and crypt_set_format() are
FreeBSD specific, I think.
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Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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