Rails - Feb 2006 - Asynchronous Encryption?

Hi Railers,

I''m looking for something to do asynchronous encryption - where the
encryption
and decryption keys are different. This is for a scenario where I want to be 
able to store some information in the database that can only be decrypted in 
a different physical location using a secret private key (which will not be 
stored on the machine doing the encrypting).

I''m trying to work out if http://ezcrypto.rubyforge.org/ is suitable
for my
purposes, and I''m thinking perhaps it isn''t.  It also seems
that
http://crypt.rubyforge.org/ isn''t suitable either. Does anyone have any
pointers for what I could use to do this?

I found Ruby-GPGME http://deisui.org/~ueno/ruby/ruby-gpgme/ but it only works 
with GPG 0.3.x, which will quite likely cause me problems as I have GPGME 
1.0.2 installed (and in use), though I suppose I could compile 0.3.x 
separately if it will let me have both installed at the same time - I
don''t
know.

Essentially I''m looking for something along the lines of PGP (GPG) or
similar,
but any form of reasonably strong asynchronous encryption will do.

Cheers,

~Dave

-- 

Dave Silvester
Rent-A-Monkey Website Development
http://www.rentamonkey.com/

PGP Key: http://www.rentamonkey.com/pgpkey.asc

Looks at sentry:

gem install sentry

--  
-- Tom Mornini

On Feb 19, 2006, at 3:19 PM, Dave Silvester wrote:
> Hi Railers,
>
> I''m looking for something to do asynchronous encryption - where
the
> encryption
> and decryption keys are different. This is for a scenario where I  
> want to be
> able to store some information in the database that can only be  
> decrypted in
> a different physical location using a secret private key (which  
> will not be
> stored on the machine doing the encrypting).
>
> I''m trying to work out if http://ezcrypto.rubyforge.org/ is  
> suitable for my
> purposes, and I''m thinking perhaps it isn''t.  It also
seems that
> http://crypt.rubyforge.org/ isn''t suitable either. Does anyone
have
> any
> pointers for what I could use to do this?
>
> I found Ruby-GPGME http://deisui.org/~ueno/ruby/ruby-gpgme/ but it  
> only works
> with GPG 0.3.x, which will quite likely cause me problems as I have  
> GPGME
> 1.0.2 installed (and in use), though I suppose I could compile 0.3.x
> separately if it will let me have both installed at the same time -  
> I don''t
> know.
>
> Essentially I''m looking for something along the lines of PGP (GPG)
> or similar,
> but any form of reasonably strong asynchronous encryption will do.
>
> Cheers,
>
> ~Dave
>
> -- 
>
> Dave Silvester
> Rent-A-Monkey Website Development
> http://www.rentamonkey.com/
>
> PGP Key: http://www.rentamonkey.com/pgpkey.asc
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On Sunday 19 Feb 2006 23:23, Tom Mornini wrote:
> Looks at sentry:
> gem install sentry
Thanks Tom, looks perfect!  :-)

~Dave

-- 

Dave Silvester
Rent-A-Monkey Website Development
http://www.rentamonkey.com/

PGP Key: http://www.rentamonkey.com/pgpkey.asc