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

[Michal Kottman <k0mpjut0r@...>]

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.

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