[DUG] Encryption / Decrption

[Conor Boyd]

Yes, MS does provide a crypto API on most Windows platforms, exposed as
a COM DLL (known as CAPICOM).  It's based around Certificate Services,
which you can configure using MMC (Microsoft Management Console?).

To configure Certificate Services, run MMC from the command line, choose
File, Add/Remove Snap-in, hit the Add button, choose Certificates, click
OK.

But you'll then have to go away and read up on certificates, and how to
use the Crypto API, etc.  Googling should get you a long way there.

Here are a few links to get you started:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/seccryp
to/security/using_capicom.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/seccryp
to/security/cryptography_objects.asp
http://www.awprofessional.com/articles/article.asp?p=31065&seqNum=1
http://www.seifried.org/security/cryptography/crypto-book/index.html

Hope that's enough to get you started.

Cheers,

Conor

-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz]
On Behalf Of Robert martin

I am looking at encrypting some small amounts of plain text.  I want to
have simple but sturdy encryption but know next to nothing about it.  
What would people recommend?  Doesn't Windows have some sort of built in
Encrypt / Decrypt API, is it any good?