On 1/18/07, Jan Svitok <jan.svitok / gmail.com> wrote:

> I have answered similar questions in:
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/211073 and
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/219842
> Especially notice the link to Handbook of Applied Cryptography
>
> The library you are interested in is OpenSSL
>
> This might be helpful as well:
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/228214
>
> Maybe instead of using PGP to encrypt, you may want to use stardard
> PKI (X.509 certificates etc.) - just choose which one is more
> convenient to you and/or your users (although I assume OpenSSL
> supports the X.509 better)
>
>
Great Thanx for your input.  I'll have a read of these thread asap.