are there any convenience methods in the kotlin st...
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tipsy
12/14/2019, 12:06 PMare there any convenience methods in the kotlin stb lib for encryption?
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Tim McCormack
12/14/2019, 1:27 PMNot sure, but I've been pretty happy with the LazySodium library.
Tim McCormack
12/14/2019, 1:29 PMIf the std lib had any such convenience methods, I'd be leery of using them, because they'd probably be very low-level, easy to screw up, and at risk of not working due to the export restrictions in effect on java's built-in crypto libraries.
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deactivateduser
12/14/2019, 1:43 PMi don't really think there is a built-in function for encryption in kotlin stdlib. However, since Kotlin is compatible with Java, i believe you can reuse the Cipher class to do encryption. Pair it with BouncyCastle library for better support.
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bbaldino
12/16/2019, 9:04 PMi've only used java bouncy castle, but i did see they released a kotlin package: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-kotlin
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