FIPS 1420 compliant encryption. - WellRailed

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More options Jun 21, 9:34 pm

From: "wtcar...@gmail.com" <wtcar...@gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:34:41 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Sun, Jun 21 2009 9:34 pm

Subject: Re: FIPS 1420 compliant encryption.

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For which the following article may be useful. Read feedback comments
too for "inline C" suggestion...

http://www.rubyinside.com/how-to-create-a-ruby-extension-in-c-in-unde...

Wayne

On Jun 22, 12:21 pm, Stephen Davis <step...@projectx.co.nz> wrote:

> For using .so libraries you could tryhttp://kenai.com/projects/ruby-ffi,
> though I couldn't get it to work. Or, you can write some glue code in C.

> 2009/6/22 Tim Uckun <timuc...@gmail.com>

> > Has anybody had to implement FIPS 1420 compliant encryption schemes
> > before and if so what did you use?

> > I am thinking that the PGP SDK might be suitable but they don't have
> > ruby bindings (it's an .so file I think) how hard is it to make calls
> > into a C library with ruby? Are there issues with re-entrancy if I am
> > doing this from a rails app?

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