EzCryptoApi OCX Control
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Bit of History
Back in year 2001, I was working as a Visual Basic Developer. The reason why I choosed that programming language was obvious, the first book about programming landed in my hands when I was 27 years old, and the easiest programming language to learn in order to work on the field ‘fast’ was for me Visual Basic.
Everybody was talking really bad about Visual Basic, saying that it was NOT a programming language, its slow program execution rates, and so on… I thought they were wrong (somehow) and worked really hard in order to speed up every single process of Visual Basic and the only way to do it was by using external DLL libraries written in C or C++. The only challenge was that Dynamic Libraries where really hard to use, they could break at anytime the program if not well programmed, or just they didn’t do nothing at all.
This is how I started programming a set of Activex Controls that VB programmers could use and easily implement into their programs. The first control was EzCryptoAPI… and you may wonder:
What is EzCryptoAPI?
“EzCryptoApi Control makes use of two Cryptographic Service Providers: “Microsoft Base Cryptographic Provider v.1″ and “Microsoft Enhanced Cryptographic Provider”. By default, Windows 9X and Windows 2000 comes with “Microsoft Base Cryptographic Provider v.1″, which will allow EzCryptoApi to make use of the following encryption algorithms: RC2, RC4, and DES. EzCryptoApi will not be able to use Triple-DES or Triple-DES-112 encryption algorithms if “Microsoft Enhanced Cryptographic Provider” is not installed on the computer.”
EzCryptoAPI on the Web
This ActiveX Control has been downloaded more than 19000 times already, it was submitted to the good old www.planetsourcecode.com. They are tons of VB Programs using this little piece of code, I do not know if they still VB5 programmers around but if you are curious, make a search on GOOGLE.
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#2 written by Jefry Gonzalez 1 year ago
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Mmm… Jefry, tan sólo has de incluir el Activex en tus librerias (qué versión de visual basic IDE estás usando?) y una vez referenciado lo verás en tu barra de componentes lateral. Tan solo has de insertar el control en el formulario, cambiar sus propiedades y referenciarlo en el código.
Díme cosas Jefry y a ver cómo puedo ayudarte
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Hi Antonio,
Looking at the comments this code looks great. I just downloaded it and will test.
I have been using CAPICOM and I had worked out some code so that IE will be able to sign the text using ActiveX / Javascript.
The code worked successfully on 32 bit OSes including WIndows Server 2008. But does not work on WIndows Server 2008, as CAPICOM is deprecated on 64-bit systems.
Can we use EzCryptoAPI in 64 bit Server 2008 OS? If you’re interested, I will send the code that I prepared.
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hello, I’m not very experienced in the programming world but this application helps me education. You can get some instruction to install this code in visual, because I have great concern about the files to log into the system and its method of execution from the visual.
Thanks for your help
hola, no soy muy experimentado en el mundo de la programación pero esta aplicación me sirve de ayuda educativa. Es posible obtener alguna instruccion para instalar este codigo en visual, pues tengo mucha inquietud en cuanto a los archivos a registrar en el system y su forma de ejecucion desde el visual.
Gracias por su ayuda