Secure connections

[Janusz A. Urbanowicz]

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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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