OT: Cypto Lib

[Andrei]

Crypto++ is very good and complete (+ as a bonus, shared builds are
possible,I don't think it has other dependencies and builds on both unix
and windows).
Openssl is quite known, however I found it hard to use.

Andrei

On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 17:27 -0400, Rajinder Yadav wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am wondering if there is a good cryptography lib C/C++ that is
> pretty much self contained and easy to build as a shared lib? It would
> also need to be well documented on usage / APIs.
> 
> I started to look for Blowfish and came across "Twofish" but the
> author provides source code (on his site) but it's lacking
> documentation, etc. I am looking to make a crypto module for Ruby that
> will be fast and efficient vs Ruby native Gems that exist.
> 
> Now that I've managed to get figure out how to call my C++ code from
> Ruby, I think this will be my first contribution to the Open Source
> community, and I am kind of excited about the idea.
> 
> I need help in tracking down a good crytpo library that's easy to
> build for my 1st crack at this. Would GnuPGP fit this bill if anyone
> has experience building a shared lib?
> 

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