| 1 | Introduction to the Wizard's Toolkit |
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| 3 | The Wizard's Toolkit includes command line utilities to encipher plaintext, |
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| 4 | decipher ciphertext, report properties associated with ciphertext, compute the |
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| 5 | message digest of a file, and read message digests from a file and |
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| 6 | authenticate them. In addition, the Wizard's Toolkit includes a a |
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| 7 | cross-platform C API that includes a number of enciphering and hash methods |
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| 8 | many developers should find useful in their projects. |
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| 10 | The Wizard's Toolkit is free software delivered as a ready-to-run binary |
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| 11 | distribution or as source code that you may freely use, copy, modify, and |
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| 12 | distribute. Its license is compatible with the GPL. It runs on all major |
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| 13 | operating systems. |
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| 15 | Features and Capabilities |
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| 17 | Here are just a few examples of what the Wizard's Toolkit command line |
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| 18 | utilities can do: |
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| 20 | * Convert plaintext to ciphertext |
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| 21 | * Convert ciphertext to plaintext |
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| 22 | * Report properties associated with ciphertext. |
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| 23 | * Compute the message digest of a file. |
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| 24 | * Read message digests from a file and verify them. |
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| 26 | Here are just a few examples of what the Wizard's Toolkit Application |
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| 27 | Programming Interface can do: |
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| 29 | * Return files as Binary Large OBjectS |
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| 30 | * Write/read characters, shorts, words, and long words to/from a file |
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| 31 | * Compute a cyclic redunancy checksum |
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| 32 | * Handle C exceptions |
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| 33 | * Generate a secure hash (includes MD5, SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, |
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| 34 | * and SHA-512) |
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| 35 | * Generate a keyed-hash for message authentication |
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| 36 | * Encipher/decipher messages (includes AES, Serpent, and Twofish) |
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| 37 | * Authenticate a user (only secret-key supported at this time) |
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| 38 | * Map content with its associated mime type and file extension |
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| 39 | * Log events to the console or XML-style file |
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| 40 | * Anonymous memory-mapped memory allocation/deallocation |
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| 41 | * Increase entropy with message compression |
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| 42 | * Generate cryptographically-strong random numbers |
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| 43 | * Acquire/relinquish resources |
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| 44 | * Acquire/relinquish semaphores |
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| 45 | * Store/retrieve key-value pairs to/from a hashmap or linked-list |
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| 46 | * Store/retrieve key-value pairs to/from a self-adjusting binary tree |
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| 47 | * Parse or generate a XML document |
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| 48 | * Convenience methods for dealing with strings |
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