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Okay, so i finished my encryptor and it works great, i'm not sure on how secure it is but judging by the key-size and fact that i'm new to all this, i'm willing to bet not very secure, haha.

But anyways...

If i wanted the program to be able to encrypt ANY kind of file... is this even possible? To have it encrypt word files or images etc. etc.?

I think ios::bin or something opens the file in binary but where do i start/ go from there?


Thanks for any help!

as long as you're sure you can encrypt and decrypt in a fully reversible way, this shouldn't be a problem.
Presumably your encryptor takes an array of bytes and encrypts it? well a word file, an image, an xml doc... these are all essentially just a long array of bytes.

so just read the file as binary into a vector of unsigned char and then encrypt.

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Originally Posted by Junior89

Okay, so i finished my encryptor and it works great, i'm not sure on how secure it is but judging by the key-size and fact that i'm new to all this, i'm willing to bet not very secure, haha.

But anyways...

If i wanted the program to be able to encrypt ANY kind of file... is this even possible? To have it encrypt word files or images etc. etc.?

I think ios::bin or something opens the file in binary but where do i start/ go from there?


Thanks for any help!

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Correction, not ios::bin, but ios::binary. E.g.

Code:

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//Save current data to file
void CSettings::saveDataToFile()
{
        std::ofstream binary_file("data/settings.dat",std::ios::out|std::ios::binary);
        binary_file.write(reinterpret_cast<char *>(&mData),sizeof(CSettings::sSettingData));
        binary_file.close();
        std::cout<<"Settings data saved successfully!"<<std::endl;
}

//Load data from file
void CSettings::loadDataFromFile()
{
        std::ifstream binary_file("data/settings.dat",std::ios::in|std::ios::binary);
        binary_file.read(reinterpret_cast<char *>(&mData),sizeof(CSettings::sSettingData));
        binary_file.close();
        std::cout<<"Settings data loaded successfully!"<<std::endl;
}

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Also for a simple encoding algorithm you might want to look at Huffman Code.

thanks for the help guys... yes my algorithm is fully reversible i've tested it many many times and each and every one comes out the same way it went in.

Also, this is coming from memory, but isn't this Huffman Code (now i haven't looked at the link yet) just that Huffman compression?

I'll give these files a shot, just load them in as unsigned chars right? Cause that's how my program is opening files now, taking them in as unsigned chars so a few modifications and hopefully it'll work =)

I'll give it a shot soon! Thanks!

Yes, using unsigned chars is a good idea when you're processing binary files.

Actually, (depending on the type of binary file) lpvoid type is good to use.

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Originally Posted by Yarin

Actually, (depending on the type of binary file) lpvoid type is good to use.

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why?

Becuase lpvoid allows for different byte sizes (like if you are reading ints from the file), char only allows as single bytes.

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like if you are reading ints from the file

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You will not - in a portable program - read an int from a binary file because of the endian issue...
So you will read a sequence of bytes and create int using byteoperations depending on the endian model used.

I see.

besides my program works on those size bytes, unsigned chars ;)

Thanks for the help... i'm gonna try to give it a shot... i'll let you guys know how badly i fail at first, but that's what you're here for! haha

Cheers! =)