#7 Popup input?

[mikeB]

Love this software - is fast and does a good job. BUT am looking for it to pop up asking for password to encr/decrpt. In other words are using it in a GUI (via shell) and need it to pop up to get the input instead of requiring user to enter in the terminal.. Is this possible?

[Peter Selinger]

Ccrypt itself does not do this, because it is a command line tool. However, you can easily write a script that prompts the user for the password via a GUI and then invokes ccrypt. For example, the attached is a simple Tcl/TK script (adapted from http://wiki.tcl.tk/3131) that prompts for a password and then echos the password to its standard output. You could pipe the password directly into ccrypt like this:

wish getpass.tk | ccrypt -k- myfile

This would encrypt the file "myfile" with the password provided by the user. (In reality, for encryption, you should probably modify getpass.tk to ask the user for the password twice, and only send the password if the user entered it correctly. For decryption, it doesn't have to be entered twice).

I've only used Tcl/TK because it is very succinct. You have to install 'wish' to use it. But of course any other scripting language with GUI capabilities could do the same.

I hope this helps, -- Peter

[mikeB]

Okay - I'll give that a try and thanks so much for your fast reply.

have a GREAT day,

mikeB

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On 09/05/2017 04:42 PM, Peter Selinger wrote:

Ccrypt itself does not do this, because it is a command line tool.
However, you can easily write a script that prompts the user for the
password via a GUI and then invokes ccrypt. For example, the attached
is a simple Tcl/TK script (adapted from http://wiki.tcl.tk/3131) that
prompts for a password and then echos the password to its standard
output. You could pipe the password directly into ccrypt like this:

wish getpass.tk | ccrypt -k- myfile

This would encrypt the file "myfile" with the password provided by the
user. (In reality, you should probably modify getpass.tk to ask the
user for the password twice, and only send the password if the user
entered it correctly).

I've only used Tcl/TK because it is very succinct. You have to install
'wish' to use it. But of course any other scripting language with GUI
capabilities could do the same.

I hope this helps, -- Peter

Attachments:

• getpass.tk
  https://sourceforge.net/p/ccrypt/support-requests/_discuss/thread/687ebe19/eda2/attachment/getpass.tk
  (832 Bytes; text/x-tcl)

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[support-requests:#7]
https://sourceforge.net/p/ccrypt/support-requests/7/ Popup input?

Status: open
Group: v1.0_(example)
Created: Tue Sep 05, 2017 09:35 PM UTC by mikeB
Last Updated: Tue Sep 05, 2017 09:35 PM UTC
Owner: nobody

Love this software - is fast and does a good job. BUT am looking for
it to pop up asking for password to encr/decrpt. In other words are
using it in a GUI (via shell) and need it to pop up to get the input
instead of requiring user to enter in the terminal.. Is this possible?

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