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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.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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