[jruby-user] JRuby support for EzCrypto

EzCrypto / Active Crypto is a Ruby gem providing cryptographic operations on 
top of OpenSSL.  I have been trying recently to use it in a Rails application 
which I deployed on Tomcat through JRuby / Goldspike.  There seems to be quite 
a bit of differences between the behavior of C OpenSSL and JRuby-OpenSSL that 
EzCrypto has tons of problems working within JRuby.  Some specific examples are:

**  lack of method 'umask' in File:Class (to tighten permissions on key files)
**  possible unsupported cipher algorithm (aes128/ECB/PKCS5Padding)
**  different expected invocation arguments (for example, required 
Initialization Vector in a certain cipher in Java while the same is not 
required in C OpenSSL)


Is this observation on par with what others are experiencing?  

Does anyone has recommendations on a good way to do cryptography that would 
work on both JRuby and CRuby transparently?  (my development are done on CRuby 
but deployed to JRuby on production...)


Env:  Fedora 8 / JDK 1.6.0_03 / JRuby 1.0.2 / JRuby-OpenSSL 0.0.4 / EzCrypto 
0.7 / Ruby 1.8.6


Cheers,
Chiaming Hsu





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