From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261798AbVFUAty (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 20:49:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261856AbVFUAsr (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 20:48:47 -0400 Received: from astro.systems.pipex.net ([62.241.163.6]:14210 "EHLO astro.systems.pipex.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261782AbVFUAPx (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 20:15:53 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 01:15:47 +0100 From: Paul Walker To: linux-crypto@nl.linux.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Announce loop-AES-v3.0d file/swap crypto package Message-ID: <20050621001547.GT23091@black-sun.demon.co.uk> References: <42B42E3B.DDEFE309@users.sourceforge.net> <20050620214951.35798.qmail@web32106.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="rz+pwK2yUstbofK6" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050620214951.35798.qmail@web32106.mail.mud.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --rz+pwK2yUstbofK6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 02:49:51PM -0700, Vinay Venkataraghavan wrote: > what is the best crypto API that I can use. I think just for this purpose > Openssl is overkill don't you think. What kind of crypto API's can I No, this is the kind of thing that openssl is designed for. Someone's already done the hard wofk for you, just use it. :-) If you really want alternatives, you could investigate Peter Gutmann's cryptlib. If you're distributing this, though, bear in mind that almost every machine will already have openssl, while not many will have cryptlib installed. --=20 Paul --rz+pwK2yUstbofK6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCt1wzP9fOqdxRstoRApY7AJ41Zhm3zpbZn9vR8JyWL9cHt0lgigCdE+Nf x9ygMxnPk78ieGpMeOGAZPU= =8kP+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rz+pwK2yUstbofK6--