[wbond]

> Cryptography on Linux (or - on most platforms) is still in a bad shape.

Having worked with Windows and OS X crypto layers, OpenSSL, CryptoPP and libtomcrypt, I think that generally cryptography is in bad shape almost everywhere.

The libraries that are trying to improve the cryptography aspects tend to run into the issue that algorithms in heavy use are unsupported. The libraries that do support algorithms in heavy use tend to have poorly written code, convoluted APIs, or bad documentation.

I have a huge amount of respect for everyone doing work in this space. When things are working, most people ignore it, but when sometimes goes wrong, everyone is mad at you. I would imagine there isn’t a whole lot of motivation for most.

[bch]

I don't know about CryptoPP, or your application of encryption, but wasn't libtomcrypyt a well-intentioned but wholly poor attempt at re-presenting crypto to developers? Is it even widely used? I came to it by way of libtommath, but recall feeling pretty quickly tomcrypto was not a crypto solution.