On Jan 17, 2006, at 10:06 AM, Steve Mills wrote:

> I haven't been able to find a nice clean Carbon API for password  
> encryption/decryption. The only such things returned in a search  
> are the Unix tools (crypt, etc). The passwords in question are  
> stored in our prefs. They don't allow access to sensitive data or  
> anything like that, so simple encryption is fine. I'm currently hex  
> encoding them, which is a bit too easy to figure out. Also, the  
> passwords are utf16, so I need something that won't interpret the  
> nul bytes as the end of the string (since every other byte will  
> almost always be 0).

What's wrong with storing it in the keychain?  That way the keychain  
subsystem handles all the encryption for you...



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