From: Demetris Constantinou <demec@...>
Date: 2010-05-01T19:27:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Encrypting/Decrypting files wirh ruby.

Baduk thanx for your reply.

I want to use it in a Rails application to encrypt the files and then 
store them!


Baduk Baduk wrote:
> There are many examples of using OpenSSL to encrypt and decrypt files in 
> Ruby, which can be found via Google.
> 
> But why not just use OpenSSL straight from the command line?
> 
> Demetris Constantinou wrote:
>> I have been searching the internet to find a way to encrypt files and
>> then decrypt the back.. What I found is how to encrypt a string of text
>> and then decrypt it back.
>> 
>> For exampe you have a
>>    plaintext = "some text"
>> 
>> you encrypt it into a ciphertext and then how to decrypt it back.
>> 
>> What I want to do is to encrypt a whole file, files like .doc, .docx,
>> .xls, .pps and so on. Basically any file either this is a document, a
>> photo or whatever.
>> 
>> Any help on how to achieve this. I found a library 'ChilKat' but you
>> need to purchase a license to do this.
>> 
>> Any help is much appreciated!
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Demetris Constantinou

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