[52260] in Cypherpunks
Re: M$ CryptoAPI Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Sun Mar 17 18:43:10 1996
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: bglassle@kaiwan.com
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 18:43:42 -0500 (EST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <314bb878.2839245@kaiwan.kaiwan.com> from "Bob Glassley" at Mar 17, 96 07:11:11 am
Bob Glassley wrote:
| With the current releases of the NT 4.0 betas, I would assume some of
| you have had the chance to look at the API more closely. I am getting
| ready to hack my first crypto enabled app and wondered if this was
| worth using or if Crypto C++ is the way to go.
MS's crypto API is only available on MS platforms (AFAIK.) If
you want to be able to run cross platform, I'd reccomend something
that works on other platforms. Crypto++ is probably preferable to
MS's API for that reason.
For other options, I maintain a table of crypto libraries at
www.homeport.org/~adam/crypto/
Adam
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"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
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