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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Can I prevent a script from being viewed? Post 302994773 by dn888 on Tuesday 28th of March 2017 12:06:43 AM
Old 03-28-2017
I'm interested to know more.

For instance, if a user encrypts an ascii file using the following method:

Code:
# echo hello > hello.out
#
# encrypt -a aes -i hello.out -o hello.out.encrypted
Enter key:
# ls -lrth hello.out hello.out.encrypted
-rw-r-----   1 sysadmin   other         6 Mar 28 15:00 hello.out
-rw-r-----   1 sysadmin   other        56 Mar 28 15:01 hello.out.encrypted
# file hello.out hello.out.encrypted
hello.out:      ascii text
hello.out.encrypted:    data
#

When the encrypt program asks the user to insert a key, how can root user capture the input?
Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment Please use CODE tags when displaying sample input, sample output, and code segments.

Last edited by Don Cragun; 03-28-2017 at 01:49 AM.. Reason: Add CODE an ICODE tags.
 

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MCRYPT_GENERIC(3)							 1							 MCRYPT_GENERIC(3)

mcrypt_generic - This function encrypts data

SYNOPSIS
string mcrypt_generic (resource $td, string $data) DESCRIPTION
This function encrypts data. The data is padded with " " to make sure the length of the data is n * blocksize. This function returns the encrypted data. Note that the length of the returned string can in fact be longer than the input, due to the padding of the data. If you want to store the encrypted data in a database make sure to store the entire string as returned by mcrypt_generic, or the string will not entirely decrypt properly. If your original string is 10 characters long and the block size is 8 (use mcrypt_enc_get_block_size(3) to determine the blocksize), you would need at least 16 characters in your database field. Note the string returned by mdecrypt_generic(3) will be 16 characters as well...use rtrim($str, "") to remove the padding. If you are for example storing the data in a MySQL database remember that varchar fields automatically have trailing spaces removed during insertion. As encrypted data can end in a space (ASCII 32), the data will be damaged by this removal. Store data in a tinyblob/tinytext (or larger) field instead. PARAMETERS
o $td - The encryption descriptor. The encryption handle should always be initialized with mcrypt_generic_init(3) with a key and an IV before calling this function. Where the encryption is done, you should free the encryption buffers by calling mcrypt_generic_deinit(3). See mcrypt_module_open(3) for an example. o $data - The data to encrypt. RETURN VALUES
Returns the encrypted data. SEE ALSO
mdecrypt_generic(3), mcrypt_generic_init(3), mcrypt_generic_deinit(3). PHP Documentation Group MCRYPT_GENERIC(3)
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