RE: Encryption

["Keller, Tim" <Tim.Keller () stratus com>]

Ian,

I would look at the openssl libraries and toolkit.  It provides a nice
common interface that would allow you to with a single piece of
cipher/decipher code to implement a whole range of different ciphers.

As for a book, I'd recommend picking up a copy of "Secure Programming
Cookbook for C and C++" by John Viega, and Matt Messier.
ISBN: 0-596-00394-3

In university I had to write a program that could use blowfish to
encrypt a file.  I used this book plus the openssl library to solve the
problem.

Drop me a line and I'll send you the code. (Warning: it's scary written
at 3am hopped up on caffeine code...)

Best of luck.
Tim.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Crane [mailto:iancrane () tpg com au] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 6:28 AM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Encryption

Hi all,

I'm writing an assignment for Uni on Encryption and wanted to run a 
series of simple experiments as part of it.

I'm thinking of just encrypting some small amounts of data using 
different methods/algorithms and then trying to break it and comparing 
the results.

Can anyone please point me in the right directions in terms of the tools

I will need?

Thanks and regards,

Ian Crane