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diff --git a/content/posts/2004-02-09-not-quite-so-evil.html b/content/posts/2004-02-09-not-quite-so-evil.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8fcbed3 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/2004-02-09-not-quite-so-evil.html @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +--- +date: "2004-02-09T17:35:59Z" +title: Not Quite So Evil +--- + +<p>So I've been using <a +href='http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/security/security/cryptography_reference.asp'><acronym +title='Microsoft Cryptographic API'>MSCAPI</acronym></a> and <a +href='http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/security/security/capicom_reference.asp'><acronym +title='Cryptographic API Component Object Model'>CAPICOM</acronym></a> +here at work, and I have to say that I'm impressed. I've used +<a href='http://www.openssl.org/'>OpenSSL</a> for crypto stuff in the +past, and both +the <acronym title='Application Programming Interface'>API</acronym> and +documentation for <a href='http://www.openssl.org/'>OpenSSL</a> +suck ass. Specifically, the <acronym title='Application +Programming Interface'>API</acronym> is counter-intuitive, and the +documentation is terse or non-existent. Of course, there are <a +href='http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-crypto/'>other options</a>, but +they're not as popular (and they lack language bindings, at least <a +href='http://cvs.pablotron.org/?m=gcrypt-ruby'>for the time being</a>). +</p> + |