R help - Nov 2011 - Encryption package of R

Dear all:

Is there any encryption package of R? For instance, 3DES or AES algorithm
package or whatever...
Thanks a lot in advance.

Best regards,
Jason

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Jun Ji <junj <at> stanford.edu> writes:
> Is there any encryption package of R? For instance, 3DES or AES algorithm
> package or whatever...
> Thanks a lot in advance.
> 
  library(sos)
  findFn("encryption")

 finds a partial AES implementation, but not much else.

On Nov 11, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Ben Bolker wrote:
> Jun Ji <junj <at> stanford.edu> writes:
> 
>> Is there any encryption package of R? For instance, 3DES or AES
algorithm
>> package or whatever...
>> Thanks a lot in advance.
>> 
> 
>  library(sos)
>  findFn("encryption")
> 
> finds a partial AES implementation, but not much else.
Hi,

When it comes to encryption, you are best to use a library that has a good
history behind it.

I would suggest looking at http://www.gnupg.org/ and perhaps specifically,
libgcrypt (http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Libgcrypt).

HTH,

Marc Schwartz