[DUG] Encryption / Decrption

[Stefan Mueller]

Have you made a search at www.torry.ru? 

http://www.torry.net/pages.php?id=519 has heaps of freely available
libraries for encription/decription. 


Kind Regards,
Stefan Mueller 


-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On
Behalf Of Robert martin
Sent: Tuesday, 11 July 2006 11:57 a.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Encryption / Decrption

Thanks Conor

I am looking at building it into a shipping app so this seems like a bit 
of a no go.  But thanks for the info :)

Rob Martin
Software Engineer

phone +64 03 377 0495
fax   +64 03 377 0496
web www.chreos.com

Wild Software Ltd



Conor Boyd wrote:
> 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?
>
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