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On 18 Feb 2005, at 07:19, ehaselsteiner / gmx.at wrote:

> 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.

The OpenSSL command line tools are not documented either, which is 
quite sad.  OpenSSL seems to be the most complicated thing on the 
planet.

> I was
> also not able to find an openssl.rb file which I could use just out of 
> the
> box.

Its a .so (or .dll, or .bundle), not a .rb file.

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

OpenSSL comes with Ruby now.  No need to install other stuff.

> Did I miss any alternatives ?

I bet if there was a good alternative to OpenSSL, then more people 
would use it.  OpenSSL can be quite the beast, but it seems to do its 
job once you figure out how to make it do that.

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