FIPS 1420 compliant encryption.

[Tim Uckun]

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?

[Stephen Davis]

For using .so libraries you could try http://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 <timu...@gmail.com>

[wtca...@gmail.com]

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-under-5-minutes-100.html

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>

[Henry Maddocks]

Write yourself Ruby extension. It's pretty easy if you know C.

[Stephen Davis]

(Yeah, having a tutorial might help :-)

Also, README.EXT in the ruby sources is a good reference.

2009/6/22 wtca...@gmail.com <wtca...@gmail.com>

[Wayne Carter]

Whoops, i see your point Stephen, but that's what a Google search turns up and I didn't need to look any deeper for my stuff.  It's only a few second read anyway..

Wayne 

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