About Ruby_NaCl
Ruby_NaCl is a Ruby gem that provides a wrapper around DJB's awesome NaCl library.
What is NaCl?
NaCl (pronounced "salt") is a new easy-to-use high-speed software library for network communication, encryption, decryption, signatures, etc written by Daniel J. Bernstein.
Install the gem
- git clone http://github.com/CaffeinatedMind/Ruby_NaCl.git
- cd Ruby_NaCl
- git submodule init
- git submodule update
- gem build ruby_nacl.gemspec
- gem install ruby_nacl-0.1.0.gem
"Hello, World" example
require 'ruby_nacl'
sender = NaCl.new
receiver = NaCl.new
sender.set_remote_nonce(receiver.nonce)
receiver.set_remote_nonce(sender.nonce)
sender.set_remote_key(receiver.public_key)
receiver.set_remote_key(sender.public_key)
receiver.set_secret(sender.secret)
message = "Hello world!"
encrypted_message = sender.public_encrypt(message)
decrypted_message = receiver.public_decrypt(encrypted_message)
puts decrypted_messageLicense
Ruby_NaCl is licensed under the Ruby License.