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  Documentation about ruby-openssl Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> - 2011-05-04 06:16 -0500
    Re: Documentation about ruby-openssl Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> - 2011-05-05 03:22 -0500
      Re: Documentation about ruby-openssl Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> - 2011-05-05 05:36 -0500
    Re: Documentation about ruby-openssl "Javier H." <devcindario@gmail.com> - 2011-05-08 18:21 -0500

#3922 — Documentation about ruby-openssl

Hi, is there somewhere good documentation about ruby-openssl API? or
any good tutorial? The RDOC is hard to read:

  http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/openssl/rdoc/index.html

Thanks a lot.

PD: Is there any other alternative to ruby-openssl?

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Iñaki Baz Castillo
<ibc@aliax.net>

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#3976

"Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@aliax.net> wrote in post #996577:
> Hi, is there somewhere good documentation about ruby-openssl API? or
> any good tutorial? The RDOC is hard to read:
>
>   http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/openssl/rdoc/index.html

Probably best just to look at some code which uses it. Net::HTTPS would 
be a good start for a TLS client. For TLS server, I did some 
reverse-engineering to build ruby-ldapserver, and now I use that as my 
reference implementation :-)

> PD: Is there any other alternative to ruby-openssl?

Depends what you want to do.

ruby's ext/openssl is just a thin wrapper around the openssl library. If 
you want to do things like open and accept TLS sessions, it's your main 
option. I don't know if alternatives like GNU-TLS have been wrapped for 
ruby.

However, if you want to do things like symmetric encryption, there are 
quite a few other libraries.

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2011/5/5 Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com>:
> Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@aliax.net> wrote in post #996577:
>> Hi, is there somewhere good documentation about ruby-openssl API? or
>> any good tutorial? The RDOC is hard to read:
>>
>>   http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/openssl/rdoc/index.html
>
> Probably best just to look at some code which uses it. Net::HTTPS would
> be a good start for a TLS client. For TLS server, I did some
> reverse-engineering to build ruby-ldapserver, and now I use that as my
> reference implementation :-)

Then I'll check it :)




>> PD: Is there any other alternative to ruby-openssl?
>
> Depends what you want to do.
>
> ruby's ext/openssl is just a thin wrapper around the openssl library. If
> you want to do things like open and accept TLS sessions, it's your main
> option. I don't know if alternatives like GNU-TLS have been wrapped for
> ruby.
>
> However, if you want to do things like symmetric encryption, there are
> quite a few other libraries.

I just want openssl to check certificates (verify that they are signed
by a CA and so).
I've already tested ruby-openssl a bit doing such stuff (loading a
cert, loading a CA, veriy the cert with the public key of the CA... it
seems to work ok) :)

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Iñaki Baz Castillo
<ibc@aliax.net>

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#4145

Hello,

"PD: Is there any other alternative to ruby-openssl?"

http://tiny.ly/KPRe

Best regards

Javier

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