From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2011-05-05T19:36:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Documentation about ruby-openssl

2011/5/5 Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com>:
> Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@aliax.net> wrote in post #996577:
>> Hi, is there somewhere good documentation about ruby-openssl API? or
>> any good tutorial? The RDOC is hard to read:
>>
>>   http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/openssl/rdoc/index.html
>
> Probably best just to look at some code which uses it. Net::HTTPS would
> be a good start for a TLS client. For TLS server, I did some
> reverse-engineering to build ruby-ldapserver, and now I use that as my
> reference implementation :-)

Then I'll check it :)




>> PD: Is there any other alternative to ruby-openssl?
>
> Depends what you want to do.
>
> ruby's ext/openssl is just a thin wrapper around the openssl library. If
> you want to do things like open and accept TLS sessions, it's your main
> option. I don't know if alternatives like GNU-TLS have been wrapped for
> ruby.
>
> However, if you want to do things like symmetric encryption, there are
> quite a few other libraries.

I just want openssl to check certificates (verify that they are signed
by a CA and so).
I've already tested ruby-openssl a bit doing such stuff (loading a
cert, loading a CA, veriy the cert with the public key of the CA... it
seems to work ok) :)

-- 
Iñaki Baz Castillo
<ibc@aliax.net>