We did a really nice test tool in Ruby and I am really happy with the 
language.

Now, we would have to add cryptographic functions to our tests. Basically 
DES, AES, SHA-1, HMAC, and RSA. So, I looked for crypto libraries for 
Ruby. The only thing I found was OpenSSL. But this seems to be not 
documented and I found only people telling that it is not working. I was 
also not able to find an openssl.rb file which I could use just out of the 
box.

What is the status of this OpenSSL project ? The homepage looks kind of 
not maintained.

Did I miss any alternatives ?

I also thought about using Java for the crypto stuff, but integrating Java 
also seems quite tricky and not very clean. Did I miss anything here ?

Any help is appreciated

Best,
Ernst

Ernst Haselsteiner
Philips Austria