On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 16:06:12 -0400, Jim Starkey wrote:

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>I've finished elementary and intermediate tire kicking with LibTomCrypt
>(Tom's Crypto Library) with excellent results. I have small test
>application plus working tranform classes for DES, SHA, and RSA PKCS
>(oaep encoding with public encrypt, private decrypt, private encrypt,
>and public decrypt) plus transforms for hex, base64, files, and
>strings. The test program, all transforms, the necessary partof a
>LibTomCrypt, a degenerate memory manager plus a password manager (for
>regression testing) comes out to a Windows release executable of 163K,
>of which LibTomCrypt is no more than half.
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>The customization was isolated to a tomcrypt_custom.h header where I
>replaced the memory primitives and selected the hashes, ciphers, and
>pkcs's that I wanted. I also changed the extensions from .c to .cpp and
>fixed a half-dozen C-isms.
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>The next step is extract the modules I need into a flatter directory
>tree to preserve my sanity and do some multi-platform testing.
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>But from all indications, LibTomCrypt is a real winner.
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>Jim Starkey
>Netfrastructure, Inc.
>978 526-1376
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