From: Shajith <demerzel@...>
Date: 2005-04-02T06:57:26+09:00
Subject: Re: what password obfuscation options are there in standard ruby on windows?

On Apr 2, 2005 3:09 AM, rpardee@comcast.net <rpardee@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> So is this a good place to agitate/whine for the inclusion of some of
> the all-ruby crypto algorithms out there in the standard lib?  Maybe
> nothing's ready for prime-time?  Maybe it's better to try to get it in
> the windows one-click installer, on the theory that the unixies (and
> macsters?) all have openssl?

Dunno about that, but there seem to be some entries under the
Cryptography category in RAA[1], some of them pure ruby(like
ruby-aes).

Of course, nothing would beat having a pure-ruby crypto lib in the
standard distribution.

HTH!
Shajith

1: http://raa.ruby-lang.org/cat.rhtml?category_major=Library;category_minor=Cryptography