Thread: looking for simple encrypt/decrypt commands

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    looking for simple encrypt/decrypt commands

    I am looking for some simple encrypt and decrypt commands (using something secure like aes 256). A template would be nice.

    <type> *encrypt(&string, &password) and <type> *decrypt(&string, &password).

    Can you advice me some library?

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    7. It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
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    http://www.cryptopp.com/docs/ref/index.html it looks quite good.

    But I don`t know really what I can use to encrypt a simple string.

    I want encrypt a string with a password and save it to disk. If the disk gets stolen then no one may decrypt this without a computer centre and bruteforce. Later it may be decrypted with the right password. The length of the password (20 chars +) doesn`t matter but it should be also just a string. That`s basically all I want to do.

    Just symmetric encryption, no complicated public key encryption.

    Any advice in which class I should start looking?

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    I'm not terribly familiar with these animals myself, but SHA and MD5 implementations are availible. Perhaps in that very package.
    7. It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
    40. There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.*

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    Them are hashs, won`t work for this situation.

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