Re: [ANN] ltn12ce - An all-in-one compression and encryption library for Lua

[Andres Perera <andres.p@...>]

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 4:53 AM, Michal Kottman <k0mpjut0r@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 January 2013 02:02, Andres Perera <andres.p@zoho.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Fabien <fleutot+lua@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Michal Kottman <k0mpjut0r@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> if anyone finds an encryption library as an alternative to PolarSSL
>> >> which
>> >> is not GPL licensed, I would be more than willing to re-license the
>> >> whole
>> >> code as MIT/X11.
>> >
>> >
>> > libtomcrypt is public domain (and we're in the process of releasing
>> > LTN12
>> > bindings to it under Eclipse public license; it's under intellectual
>> > property review as we speak). I don't know whether it offers all the
>> > codecs
>> > you're interested in.
>>
>> if i'm not mistaken, libtomcrypt is under maintenance mode with very
>> few commits this past year[0]. am i missing something wrt openssl as
>> an alternative? i'm very much interested in libtom* (specially
>> fastmath) since the code is much easier to understand than openssl's
>
>
> OpenSSL is BIG (the libcrypto.so library on my system is ~2MB), and not easy
> to embed as a source code. I was looking for something which is easy to
> include in source code form and could be used e.g. on mobile phones and
> embedded systems.

i see. i was a bit misled by the OP list of "windows, osx, linux"...
barring the last item, they're not really embedded targets. openssl
also comes preinstalled in every mayor distro that i know of, osx, and
*bsd

>
> In my opinion, few commits per year is not an indicator that a library is
> bad/unsuitable. Lua 5.1 lasted 5 years :)