[Ghoser777]

Hi - I'm making a program that needs to be able make certain information output to a file in a private manner. That is, to access the file, you have to provide a password in some way. So, is there a program, framework, etc that provides the functionality to encrypt a file given a certain password, and then will only decrypt properly if you us the correct password again? NSWorkspace seems to have an unsupported comment about encryption operations, but that I guess won't help me. Keychain and the like aren't options.

Thanks,
Matt

[msykes]

Originally posted by Ghoser777:
Hi - I'm making a program that needs to be able make certain information output to a file in a private manner. That is, to access the file, you have to provide a password in some way. So, is there a program, framework, etc that provides the functionality to encrypt a file given a certain password, and then will only decrypt properly if you us the correct password again? NSWorkspace seems to have an unsupported comment about encryption operations, but that I guess won't help me. Keychain and the like aren't options.

Thanks,
Matt

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...threadid=82246

That would seem to help you, at least in so far as the password aspect is concerned.

The hard part seems to be decrypting the file again.

[Ghoser777]

That discussion doesn't really help what I'm after - the unix utility ccrypt is working great for me now.

Thanks anyway,
Matt