Question

Anyone knows how to generate key from a plain-text password? I mean a secure Key derivation function with salt.

ie.

function KeyDerivationProc(APassword : String) : String;
begin
     // ...
end;

I’m using Delphi (2010). I thought about DCPcrypt2 and OpenPGPBlackbox, but I’m really lost here.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Answer 1

For PBKDF2, which is more or less the standard, you can only get the Chilkat libs it seems:

http://www.example-code.com/delphi/crypt2_pbkdf2.asp

So you might be better off looking at bcrypt, for which an implementation is on this spectacular site, and if you search for it, a few others as well.