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Leiradella, Andre V Matos Da Cunha, at 09:17 -0300 on Thu, 20 Apr 2000, wrote:

> Does anybody can point me the functions I need to:

It sounds like you really need to look through the FAQ or README that is
distributed with GnuPG.

Why do you think the random number generation in GnuPG is bad? I'm
assuming you're using an OS, of course, that has a _real_ /dev/random,
such as Linux or the BSD's.

Oh, and DES won't do the job. Use something that is trusted and has a
decent keysize, such as maybe 3DES. Look at http://www.openssl.org/ for
implementations.

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> Does anybody can point me the functions I need to:
>
> . Generate a key pair;
> . Encrypt/Decrypt a data buffer using one of the keys.
>
> I'm gonna use gnupg to start a secure client-server connection to exchange a
> DES (does DES do the job?) key that will be used to encrypt/decrypt all data
> that passes over the connection. I know automatic generation of keys suck
> because random number generators suck too, but I'll probably by using an
> external hardware to generate true (?) random numbers.
>
> Thanks in advance,

Why wont you use SSL (OpenSSL) or ssh ? Much simplier.

Alex
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