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 * Copyright (c) 2007 IBM Corporation and others.
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 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
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This is a JNI bridge to access native Windows encryption methods from Java. The methods
perform user-specific encryption of the data and encode result into Base64 format for
easy handling and storage. 

The same user can later decrypt data using methods provided by this DLL. A different user 
won't be able to decrypt the data. If user has a roaming profile, he can decrypt data
on a different computer on the domain.

In the event if stand-alone computer needs to have OS re-installed (or the domain controller
and the computer in the domain), be sure to create Windows password recovery disk BEFORE 
re-installing the operating system.

Note that this mechanism is intended to be used with small size data like passwords. For 
large amount of data consider encrypting your password using this mechanism and using 
symmetric encryption to encrypt the data.


To compile this DLL:
=> JAVA_HOME environment variable needs to be setup so that jni.h can be found

Note C++ projects settings:
=> Additional include directories - "$(JAVA_HOME)/include";"$(JAVA_HOME)/include/win32"
=> Additional linker dependency - Crypt32.lib