From: Jeremy Hinegardner <jeremy@...>
Date: 2007-03-21T01:43:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Cryptography

On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 04:22:01PM +0900, Amr Kamel wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> Is there any Ruby packages that provides cryptography "either symmetric
> or asymmetric cryptography"? If so can any one tell me and recommend me
> what to use?
> Thanks in advance.

Ruby ships with an OpenSSL interface so you can use the encryption
available in openssl in ruby.

One example of using OpenSSL and Ruby for encryption is :

    http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/576

It is true that the documentation on using OpenSSL from Ruby is lacking.

There are also the pure ruby encryption cyphers avaialble in
http://crypt.rubyforge.org.  Those can be installed with:

    gem insall crypt

The crypt website has good usage examples.

enjoy,

-jeremy

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 Jeremy Hinegardner                              jeremy@hinegardner.org