NAME¶

cryptest - Test Driver for Crypto++, a C++ Class Library of Cryptographic Primitives

SYNOPSIS¶

cryptest [OPTION]

DESCRIPTION¶

cryptest takes the following options

g

generate an RSA key

h

display usage information

r

encrypt and decrypt a string using RSA

rs privatekeyfile messagefile signaturefile

sign a file using RSA

rv publickeyfile messagefile signaturefile

verify a signature of a file using RSA

m file

calculate MD5, SHA, and RIPEMD-160 message digests

t

encrypt and decrypt a string using DES-EDE in CBC mode

e|d input output

encrypt or decrypt a file

ss <threshold> <number-of-shares> file

secret share a file (shares will be named file.000, file.001, etc)

sr file share1 share2 [....]

reconstruct a secret-shared file (number of shares given must be equal to threshold)

id <threshold> <number-of-shares> file

information disperse a file (shares will be named file.000, file.001, etc)

ir file share1 share2 [....]

reconstruct an information-dispersed file (number of shares given must be equal to threshold)

z <compression-level> input output

gzip a file

u input output

gunzip a file

ae input output

encrypt a file with AES in CTR mode

e64 input output

base64 encode a file

d64 input output

base64 decode a file

e16 input output

hex encode a file

d16 input output

hex decode a file

ft source-port destination-host destination-port

forward a TCP connection

fips

run the FIPS 140-2 sample application

fips-rand

generate 100000 random files using FIPS Approved X.917 RNG

mt input

run Maurer's randomness test on a file

v

run validation tests

V

display version number

b [time for each benchmark in seconds] [frequency of CPU in gigahertz]

run benchmarks

tv filename

run test vector file (available in TestVectors example subdirectory)

AUTHOR¶

This man page was created by Stephen Zander, Pierre Machard and Jens Peter Secher for the Debian distribution. It is licenced under the same terms as the rest of the Crypto++ library, written by Wei Dai.