We did a really nice test tool in Ruby and I am really happy with the
language.
Now, we would have to add cryptographic functions to our tests. Basically
DES, AES, SHA-1, HMAC, and RSA. So, I looked for crypto libraries for
Ruby. The only thing I found was OpenSSL. But this seems to be not
documented and I found only people telling that it is not working. I was
also not able to find an openssl.rb file which I could use just out of the
box.
What is the status of this OpenSSL project ? The homepage looks kind of
not maintained.
Did I miss any alternatives ?
I also thought about using Java for the crypto stuff, but integrating Java
also seems quite tricky and not very clean. Did I miss anything here ?
We did a really nice test tool in Ruby and I am really happy with the language.
Now, we would have to add cryptographic functions to our tests. Basically DES, AES, SHA-1, HMAC, and RSA. So, I looked for crypto libraries for Ruby. The only thing I found was OpenSSL. But this seems to be not documented and I found only people telling that it is not working. I was also not able to find an openssl.rb file which I could use just out of the box.
I think the openssl module is quite good enough for basic crypto functions like the ones you have mentioned. I used them to extend the soap4r module to communicate with ws-security web services on .NET plattforms.
So the module works quite good, but the missing of documentation and examples is still sad.
What is the status of this OpenSSL project ? The homepage looks kind of not maintained.
Did I miss any alternatives ?
No one, AFAIK.
I also thought about using Java for the crypto stuff, but integrating Java also seems quite tricky and not very clean. Did I miss anything here ?
Now, we would have to add cryptographic functions to our tests. Basically
DES, AES, SHA-1, HMAC, and RSA. So, I looked for crypto libraries for
Ruby. The only thing I found was OpenSSL. But this seems to be not
documented and I found only people telling that it is not working.
The OpenSSL command line tools are not documented either, which is quite sad. OpenSSL seems to be the most complicated thing on the planet.
I was
also not able to find an openssl.rb file which I could use just out of the
box.
Its a .so (or .dll, or .bundle), not a .rb file.
What is the status of this OpenSSL project ? The homepage looks kind of
not maintained.
OpenSSL comes with Ruby now. No need to install other stuff.
Did I miss any alternatives ?
I bet if there was a good alternative to OpenSSL, then more people would use it. OpenSSL can be quite the beast, but it seems to do its job once you figure out how to make it do that.
We did a really nice test tool in Ruby and I am really happy with the language.
Now, we would have to add cryptographic functions to our tests. Basically DES, AES, SHA-1, HMAC, and RSA. So, I looked for crypto libraries for Ruby. The only thing I found was OpenSSL. But this seems to be not documented and I found only people telling that it is not working. I was also not able to find an openssl.rb file which I could use just out of the box.
What is the status of this OpenSSL project ? The homepage looks kind of not maintained.
Take this as a first start to find out more how to do the other crypto-algorihtms:
require 'openssl'
def hmac(key, msg)
OpenSSL::HMAC.hexdigest(OpenSSL::Digest::Digest.new('md5'), key, msg) end
I just figured out that OpenSSL does not come with Ruby (at least for me),
because I work on Windows. And the Windows release obviously does not
contain OpenSSL.
Do you have any further help for me on how to get OpenSSL running in Ruby
using Windows ?
I just figured out that OpenSSL does not come with Ruby (at least for me), because I work on Windows. And the Windows release obviously does not contain OpenSSL.
Do you have any further help for me on how to get OpenSSL running in Ruby using Windows ?
I just figured out that OpenSSL does not come with Ruby (at least for me), because I work on Windows. And the Windows release obviously does not contain OpenSSL.
Do you have any further help for me on how to get OpenSSL running in Ruby using Windows ?
It is also in the package from ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/binaries/mswin32/ruby-1.8.2-i386-mswin32.zip
