Encryption

[dougie1809]

Hi,

How would you go about writing code to encrypt a drive. For an example, when you insert a USB drive, you will be prompted if you want to encrypt your USB drive.
Relative info about what classes needs to be imported, what variables need to be instantiated, and the methods to be called.
Thanks.

[santa]

I'm not an expert on encryption but what you want to do is change the bytes on the drive according to the encryption that you choose. I'v actually done a similar task before as a exercise in school. Are you looking for finished API's/Library's to help you or are you going to do all the programming?

[dougie1809]

Ok thanks. Yea il be doing all the programming from scratch. I have actually written code to listen to USB or other media drives when running. So when I insert my USB it prints ("Drive" +letterDrive+ " has been inserted"), and when unplugged, then prints out ("Drive has been unplugged").
So now im not sure where to go from here i.e. to actually encrypt the drive.
Thanks

[doWhile]

Did you do an internet search? This is the first hit for me when searching 'java encryption'
Java Cryptography Extension
In particular, look at the Cipher class.

[santa]

I would suggest to experiment a bit with bytes/binarys/bits fist (if you are not experienced in this field).