Category

Encryption & Cryptography

Libraries for encryption, decryption, hashing and key derivation

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bcrypt() is a sophisticated and secure hash algorithm designed by The OpenBSD project for hashing passwords. The bcrypt Ruby gem provides a simple wrapper for safely handling passwords.
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Generates attr_accessors that encrypt and decrypt attributes transparently
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The Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library provides a high-level toolkit for building cryptographic systems and protocols
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The scrypt key derivation function is designed to be far more secure against hardware brute-force attacks than alternative functions such as PBKDF2 or bcrypt.
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Strongbox provides Public Key Encryption for ActiveRecord. By using a public key sensitive information can be encrypted and stored automatically. Once stored a password is required to access the information. dependencies are specified in standard Ruby syntax.
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Encrypt ActiveRecord and Mongoid attributes, files and passwords in configuration files.
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Misuse-resistant authenticated symmetric encryption
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This module allows Ruby programs to interface with "RSA Security Inc. PKCS #11 Cryptographic Token Interface (Cryptoki)".
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Rails plugin to transparently encrypt attributes
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Sentry provides painless encryption services with a wrapper around some OpenSSL classes
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Ruby wrapper for liboqs from Open Quantum Safe library. This version included platform binary of Linux, MacOS and Windows based on git commit b803b54179c1cea9091d9331cc8085fc235e1be4
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