On Jan 3, 2014, at 2:37 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas <devli...@shadowlab.org> wrote:

> The simplest advice is don't use libcrypto.
> 
> If you just need simple functionality, you may have a look at the 
> CommonCrypto API which is partially available on 10.5 ( I think Digest and 
> Cryptors where available at this time).
> 
> If you need something more complex, you should use the Security framework, 
> unfortunately the whole 10.5 API (CDSA) has been deprecated in favor of a 
> cleaner but incompatible API.
> 
> So you will have to write the code twice if you want to support 10.5 and be 
> futur proof.

Unfortunately, if you're using asymmetric encryption, you have to use the 
deprecated CDSA APIs, since (AFAIK) the newer APIs don't support it.

Charles

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