Best way to do encryption file stream

this is prolly an advanced problem, im not sure.

i have created a program in C++ for encrypting files. you can either pass it command line arguments in which case it will run silently or if a dumb user stumbled upon it they would be given prompts to figure out how it works.

there is nothing wrong with that program it works fine, my question is what would be the best way to go about converting that into a way of encrypting data on it's way out of a program, in the exact same way as you would output to any normal file. in essence, an encrypted file stream class.

Thank you for your time.

Perhaps make main a function, which would get a string, run the encryption process, then output that string in the function to the file:

Code:

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encrypt_ofstream (string& encrypt)
{
    run your encrypting process;
    open file and fout;
}

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yes, but i would like it to behave in the same way as the file streams, using overloaded << and >> operators. i was wondering if anyone could tell me if it would be better to derive my class from the stream class that all other streams derive from (can't remember the name) or if it would be better to use the ofstream and ifstream inside my class.

Look at Boost.Iostreams. Use a filter to implement the encryption.

hey thanks. this looks like it can do exactly what i want.