object-oriented cryptographic library

[mischief]

i've been looking for a crypto library for about a week now, with no luck really.
here is what i have found so far, and my qualms with the libraries:

• Crypto++ -- this is an extremely full featured library, even including things such as socket wrappers and deflate. however, the documentation is absolutely terrible. the developer expects people to dig through the doxygen documents, and i am not that good at C++ to figure out how to get it functional from the source alone, as it is quite complex.
• OpenSSL -- the widely known opensource ssl library. this library is full featured, and well documented, but not object oriented.
• hashlib++ -- a simple object oriented library, however it only incorporates MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA384, and SHA512.
• Mhash -- has a wider range of hash functions than hashlib++, but is not object oriented.

ideally, i'd like something like crypto++, or better yet, i'd like to use crypto++. but it is really poorly documented. i couldn't even get MD5 working.

if anyone has any suggestions for a good library, i'd appreciate it.

[BhaaL]

As expected, I just took a peek into the source of hashlib++. Nothing more but a mere wrapper around the old C-Source for MD5 (etc).
You do C++, so you should also like to reinvent wheels. I don't have a crypto one in my closet, so I can't really lend you a hand on that
Besides, the few (one?) algorithm you need, vs. the size of the whole lib, it probably makes more sense to simply write your own wrapper for the particular stuff.

[mischief]

thanks for the input BhaaL, however, i think i am going to use Botan. it is very well documented and full featured.

it isn't that i am looking for a few particular features. i am looking for a wide set of features for me to play around with.

[sidebottom]

[*]OpenSSL -- the widely known opensource ssl library. this library is full featured, and well documented, but not object oriented.

OpenSSL is well documented? Really...since when?

[mischief]

<br>[*]OpenSSL -- the widely known opensource ssl library. this library is full featured, and well documented, but not object oriented.<br>

<br><br><br>OpenSSL is well documented? Really...since when?

man 3 crypto
man 3 md5

or http://www.openssl.org/docs/crypto/crypto.html
or http://www.openssl.org/docs/crypto/md5.html


looks decently documented to me.

[sidebottom]

<br>[*]OpenSSL -- the widely known opensource ssl library. this library is full featured, and well documented, but not object oriented.<br>

<br><br><br>OpenSSL is well documented? Really...since when?

man 3 crypto
man 3 md5

or http://www.openssl.org/docs/crypto/crypto.html
or http://www.openssl.org/docs/crypto/md5.html


looks decently documented to me.

yea LOOKS decently documented...but obviously have never tried to use it