[47025] in Cypherpunks
Re: Cryptolib & Crypto++
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Fri Jan 12 00:52:08 1996
From: Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org>
To: grimm@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 21:25:37 -0500 (EST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9601120145.AA09274@vongole.MIT.EDU> from "grimm@MIT.EDU" at Jan 11, 96 08:45:11 pm
grimm@MIT.EDU wrote:
| What are Cryptolib & Crypto++?
Cryptolib is a package by Jack Lacy of AT&T. It provides a C library
interface to a variety of useful crypto algorithims. Includes
bignums, standard ciphers, a truerand, public key time quantization,
some other stuff.
Crytpo++ is a C++ library by Wei Dai. Its original
implementation was pulled after RSA threw lawyers around. Version 1.1
was released recently with RSA cooperation. It includes a very large
number of algorithims, including all the usual ones (DES, IDEA, rsa)
and some less common ones: Lubyrack, diamond, rc5. It also has random
number, compression, hash functions, zeroknowledge, secret sharing,
ascii armoring, etc. If I used C++, this would be all I needed.
--
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume
