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19 years ago

Encryption for remote upgrade

Hi, Our system is running a webserver. We want to be able to remotely upgrade the unit, i.e. be able to email a customer a file which he can install on a local computer. Than you would browse t...
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19 years ago

Hello niosIIuser,

Thanks so much for your advice. Your description of the steps necessary to do this totally makes sense to me. A small description of how to execute the code in the link you mention would be a big help. I need to first set keys by calling des_set_key and des3_set_2keys and des3_set_2keys, is that right? Then I can call des_encrpt sending it 8 bytes of data from my combined file at a time? Anyway, I can largely follow it but not completely. Any additional info you can give me would be a big help. Thanks.

Mike