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- Subject: Re: Encryption in Lua ? Lua encryption library OR C/C++/C#/Java library which can be called from Lua ?
- From: Daurnimator <quae@...>
- Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 13:31:09 +1100
On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 at 22:52, Paul Ducklin <pducklin@outlook.com> wrote:
> There are a few things you can’t do (e.g. you can’t use authenticated encryption algorithms such as AES-GCM directly, because you can’t call the OpenSSL functions needed to get the authentication data out), but I have been able to work around those missing parts with just a few extra lines of code.
Why not send patches upstream?
> The only thing that doesn’t work is LuaSec’s claimed integration with luaossl, which is not only undocumented but also unusably broken (though fairly easily patched to work reliably).
Which integration is that? (how can it both be claimed *and* undocumented?)
