DES Cipher

[Matthew Seaman]

On 22/12/2010 14:20, Mohammad Hedayati wrote:
> Can anyone please show me a sample code for ciphering using DES in FreeBSD?

To encrypt, something like:

   openssl enc -e -des -in plaintext.txt -a -out encrypted.asc

Decrypt like so:

   openssl enc -d -dex -in encrypted.asc -a -out plaintext.txt

Note: completely untested.  You may well need to supply various extra
arguments to make it all work.  See 'openssl enc help' for hints.

Note 2: DES is pretty trivial to crack nowadays.  Don't use this for
anything serious.  You can encrypt using AES or any of a host of other
ciphers by using a very similar openssl command line.

Note 3: If you're actually after DES "encrypted" passwords, then see
crypt(3).  From the commandline you can use the Perl crypt function:
'perldoc -f crypt' for details.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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