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Decrypting with the OpenSSL API

Posted by: kahgoh on: 13 July, 2008

Before you can decrypt something, you have to generate it! You can generate encrypted data with OpenSSL on the commandline using the enc command. The encryption process requires a key and iv (initialisation vector) pair, which can be derived from a given passphrase. The enc command gives you the option of specifying, either the passphrase [...]