How to generate and use keys using Keyczar?

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I am new to network security and trying to make one personal password manager. Definitely now I will have to use encryption and hashing algorithms.

I came across to Keyczar , which provides encryption and decryption algorithms. There I saw following 2 lines which will generate keys.

KeyczarTool create --location=/path/to/keyset --purpose=sign
KeyczarTool create --location=/path/to/keyset --purpose=crypt --name=Test
KeyczarTool create --location=/path/to/keyset --purpose=sign --asymmetric=dsa

Now problem is I am not sure where to execute them, I am using Netbeans.

Keyczar is deprecated now, use google tink here after. – Amey Jadiye Sep 16 '19 at 06:57 — Amey Jadiye, Sep 16 '19 at 06:57

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 05 '19 at 16:09

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With these commands you just created the keys. Now you need to write your code that actually uses these keys. In Java, it would be something like:

Crypter crypter = new Crypter("/path/to/your/keys");
String ciphertext = crypter.encrypt("Secret message");

You can find more documentation as well as examples in C++ and Python at https://github.com/google/keyczar/wiki.

UPDATE: Although it's not fully up-to-date, I found this documentation quite useful, a lot deeper than other links you can find out there: https://github.com/google/keyczar/blob/wiki/keyczar05b.pdf

edited Aug 05 '19 at 16:09

brass monkey

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answered Feb 01 '16 at 14:20

Gerard Giné

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For anybody trying to find the pdf above. Found a copy of it [here](http://vanilla47.com/PDFs/Cryptography/PGP/Open%20Source%20Cryptography/Keyczar%20A%20Cryptographic%20Toolkit.pdf) http://vanilla47.com/PDFs/Cryptography/PGP/Open%20Source%20Cryptography/Keyczar%20A%20Cryptographic%20Toolkit.pdf – Josh Dec 20 '16 at 20:37

How to generate and use keys using Keyczar?

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