From: "Berger, Daniel" <djberge@...>
Date: 2003-01-24T04:29:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Missing libraries??



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Smyth [mailto:smythb@alleg.edu] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 11:38 AM
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Re: Missing libraries??
> 
> 
> * Hal E. Fulton (hal9000@hypermetrics.com) wrote:
> > 5. Any need for cryptographic stuff?
> 
> The mcrypt library is fairly complete wrt available 
> cryptographic algorithms, and we have Ruby/MCrypt written by 
> Hans-Dieter Stich at http://www.rubylinks.de/ .
> 
> (However, it seems that the wrapper only functions properly 
> in ECB mode. This behavior seems to differ from the author's 
> intent, as the small test program included in the 
> distribution tests CFB and CBC as well, but those tests fail.)
> 
> Has anyone implemented any strong crypto algorithms in native 
> Ruby to measure performance feasibility?
> 
> Brian
> -- 
> Brian Smyth
> smythb@alleg.edu || http://aries.etree.org/~hamal/
> 

In addition, see the openssl package (by Michal Rokos) on the RAA.

Regards,

Dan