CryptBinaryToString isn't supported on Windows 2000. Is there and alternative?

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CryptBinaryToString isn't supported on Windows 2000. Is there and alternative?

The Windows API function CryptBinaryToString isn't supported on Windows 2000.

Is there and alternative?

The main use that I need, is to encode/decode BASE64

You could roll your own from the MSDN description.

dirkgently 2009-04-30 18:01:02

Any reason this is downvoted? Just take a look at the function description.

dirkgently 2009-04-30 18:12:36

Not the one to downvote you, but I don't see any useful information in the MSDN description either - what do you want to say? There's no any alternative information.

Francis 2009-04-30 18:29:58

I gave you an upvote, MSDN describes what each flag does and most of them are very straightforward - alternate implementations are readily available or easy to roll your own.

Michael 2009-04-30 18:35:01

That's exactly what I meant -- this is a rather easy function to implement safely unlike some of the other components of the Crypto API.

dirkgently 2009-04-30 18:41:17

+1 A:

If you want BASE64, you can find some very short implementation like b64.c. If you need more cryptocipher/certificate related stuff, try get openssl for win32.

Francis 2009-04-30 18:10:43

Indeed, it is for BASE64

Daniel Silveira 2009-04-30 18:13:02

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