From: Jamis Buck <jgb3@...>
Date: 2004-04-14T01:02:59+09:00
Subject: openssl ciphers

This is just an update on my last message. I managed to figure out how 
to use the OpenSSL ciphers to do the encryption/decryption--took a 
little doing, but once I figured it out it was almost ridiculously easy. 
For future reference, here's how you do it:

   require 'openssl'
   require 'base64'

   cipher = OpenSSL::Cipher::DES.new

   password = "hullabaloo"
   cipher.encrypt( password )
   result = cipher.update( "some text to encrypt" )
   result << cipher.final

   puts encode64( result )

   cipher.decrypt( password )
   result = cipher.update( result )
   result << cipher.final

   puts result

If anyone has any suggestions for doing it better, please let me know.

-- 
Jamis Buck
jgb3@email.byu.edu
http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis

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