First off, I've Googled this question over the past few days but everything I find doesn't work. I don't receive runtime errors but when I type in the same key (in the form of a hex string) that the program generates to encrypt, decryption fails (but using the generated key throughout the program works fine). I'm trying to enter a hex string (format: 00:00:00...) and turn it into a 32-byte byte array. The input comes from getpass()
. I've done this before in Java and C# but I'm new to C++ and everything seems much more complicated. Any help would be greatly appreciated :) Also I'm programming this on a linux platform so I'd like to avoid Windows-only functions.
Here is an example of what I've tried:
char *pass = getpass("Key: ");
std::stringstream converter;
std::istringstream ss( pass );
std::vector<byte> bytes;
std::string word;
while( ss >> word )
{
byte temp;
converter << std::hex << word;
converter >> temp;
bytes.push_back( temp );
}
byte* keyBytes = &bytes[0];