Message-ID: <E3084014-59E7-4E72-BDC4-8EE2FDF1F5C7@me.com>
Date: 2011-11-12T02:16:49Z
From: Marc Schwartz
Subject: Encryption package of R
In-Reply-To: <loom.20111111T230340-430@post.gmane.org>
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