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Re: recommendations/evaluations of free / low-cost crypto libraries
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph Ashwood)
Fri Jun 18 17:21:50 2004
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From: "Joseph Ashwood" <ashwood@msn.com>
To: "Amir Herzberg" <amir@herzberg.name>, <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 13:58:23 -0700
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From: "Amir Herzberg" <amir@herzberg.name>
Subject: recommendations/evaluations of free / low-cost crypto libraries
> I will appreciate experience-reports/evaluations/comparisons with free
> or low cost (and in particular zero `per seat` cost) crypto libraries,
> especially in C / C++ (or links to web-sites containing them).
Generally the two most suggested free products are Crypto++
(http://www.eskimo.com/~weidai/cryptlib.html) and OpenSSL
(http://www.openssl.org/). I have used both and both are very good toolsets,
each has small advantages, but mostly it's just a programming style
preference.
As a personal preference, I generally preper OpenSSL for most purposes,
because the interface feels better to me, but lately I've been using
Crypto++ more because it supports a wider selection of algorithms (including
the very important for me ECC variants) which is recently of extreme value
to me.
I will say that if either of these was pay-ware, I would gladly pay for it.
Joe
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