Unix Programming - Re: Right way of using setkey(3) and encrypt(3)

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Re: Right way of using setkey(3) and encrypt(3)

cnystrom@gmail.com

2004-12-17, 2:49 am

Wayne C. Morris wrote:
>
> You're trying to use 64-byte strings. Both key[] and txt[] are
supposed to
> be 64-byte arrays of 1's and 0's (numeric values, not ASCII digits).

Thank you! That occured to me, but I had a hard time understanding why
they used a whole byte if they just wanted binary data. Strange.

> For a more practical program, you'd want to add functions to convert
an
> 8-byte string into a 64-byte array of 1's and 0's, and vice versa.
Ok, thanks.

Chris