[edwintorok]

If you have to interoperate with something already using OpenSSL then probably not.

If you are writing a new application then read on.

There are 2 NaCl alternatives to consider as well: Sodium (API compatible) [2], TweetNaCl (small, auditable) [1].

There are higher-level protocols that uses NaCl, CurveCP [3] for UDP, and CurveZMQ for TCP[4], although "CurveCP software isn't ready for users yet".

[1] http://tweetnacl.cr.yp.to/ [2] http://doc.libsodium.org/

[3] http://curvezmq.org/page:read-the-docs [4] http://curvecp.org/