Re: security primitives

From: Colin McKinnon (colin.deletethis_at_andthis.mms3.com)
Date: 10/20/04

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    Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:13:23 +0100
    
    

    CI wrote:

    > I'm a totally newbie of security, so i do apologize for my trivial
    > questions.
    >
    > I need primitives (obviously under linux) that implement the basic
    > cryptography algorithms (public and private en(de)cryption, hash
    > functions, ...); they're meant to be used in C (or C++) programs.
    > What shall I look for?

    libmcrypt would be a good start for symmetric cyphers and hashes. For
    asymmetric encryption openSSL or gpg.

    HTH

    C.


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