Tall men in dark suits made draven@infi.net (Greg Morgan) write:

I'm in the process of writing a freeware IRC client in Visual Basic 3 and wanted to encorporate a secure variant of DCC chat. Trouble is I can't find a precompiled library that has either RSA or DH in it. This doesn't do me much good as I don't even own a Windows C compiler... (is that a crime in some countries? :) )

The next release of my encryption library (currently available as ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/security/crypl110.zip) will contain a nice fast RSA implementation. It includes 16 and 32-bit DLL's. Actually the current version has support for it, but I took out the code because the key management routines weren't ready yet. There are two things worth noting, the first is that RSA itself isn't much use without a *lot* of key management code (which is what's holding up the RSA-enabled version). The second is that if you're in the US you're probably going to run into legal hassles using this code unless someone wants to do an alternative RSAREF implementation which you can plug in in place of the existing RSA code. Peter.