Hi,

I want to encrypt and then place a small amount data (7 small numbers and a username) into a url, and pass it to other processes. Using https is not an option for what I'm doing. So I want to put say '111-222-333-444-555-66-777-JoeDoe' into something like:

http://mysite.com/blah/EncryptedAndUrlEncoded

However I want to keep the length of the encrypted data relatively small, if I could I'ld like it to be max 32 chars long.

Ideally I'd like to use an encryption method/module that also has a C/C++ library (for decrypting in a *nix C/C++ program)...

I'm having a hard time finding the right encryption module to do the job here ;( . Any suggestions?

thank you!

Kevin

In reply to Storing encrypted data in url by infidel2112

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