Cryptography and D

[Adam Wilson via Digitalmars-d]

On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 05:33:06 -0700, Etienne <etcimon at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2014-06-29 3:19 AM, Adam Wilson wrote:
>> Botan isn't as battle-tested as OpenSSL or Crypto++ but it was designed
>> from the ground up to mitigate or prevent the kind of problems that
>> OpenSSL is currently experiencing, and was implemented by someone who
>> has done multiple Cryptographic Module Verifications for NIST. I
>> personally went with Botan because it's relatively easy to create
>> bindings for the languages I use and API is relatively sane for a crypto
>> library (I'm looking at you OpenSSL).
>>
>
> It also seems to link statically with D projects, although it requires  
> MSVC. I'd certainly build a dub package for it, but I'm too busy paving  
> the way towards a native TLS library although I intend on using your  
> crypto interface with it. ;)

The static linking is due to the fact that D's shared library support is  
very uneven across platforms. The .NET binding is fully modularized and  
will load the correct Arch at runtime to support the AnyCPU arch.

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Adam Wilson
GitHub/IRC: LightBender
Aurora Project Coordinator