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Article: 13629 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Path: newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu!watsun.cc.columbia.edu!jaltman
From: jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Jeffrey Altman)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: local access to encryption?
Date: 17 Aug 2002 23:26:26 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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What you want is not built into k95. Spend some time learning the
OpenSSL.exe command. Docs at http://www.openssl.org
In article <u1y8xbkjm.fsf@att.net>,
Thomas A. Horsley <tom.horsley@att.net> wrote:
: Another question from that emacs pest (they'll die down when I have to go
: back to doing real work on Monday :-).
:
: I occured to me that k95 has all kinds of nifty cipher algorithms built into
: it these days (at least the crypto version does) for encrypting
: communications.
:
: Is there any way I can use that encryption locally to do things like encrypt
: and decrypt strings, or encrypt and decrypt files on disk? If foolish folk
: want to store their passwords on disk, it might be nice if they could at
: least use the best encryption kermit has to offer when they do it (or would
: access to that violate terms of the export license you just got?).
:
: I didn't notice anything obvious in "show functions" or in the security.htm
: doc file (but if nothing else, I am serving as a good example of how many
: different ways one person can overlook or misinterpret the docs - not that I
: always have problems with them, I just don't ask here when I manage to dig
: things up myself :-).
: --
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