I'm new to the Crypto++ (also to encryption arena) API and have a couple of questions:
1. I need to do encryption on wide strings (std::wstring). How can we go about doing that? I searched for other encryption API's and couldn't find anything that specifically talks about wide-strings.
Use good OOP encapsulation: just treat it as a byte array in your encryption layer. There is no reason the encryption needs to know it is a wchar string or a phone number in EBCDIC. That is the responsibility of your application layer.
2. I'm planning to provide a small layer over Crypto++. Is it possible to strip our encryptions that are not needed. Say, RSA is the only one that I'm interested in (at least at this time -- in the future more may be added) supporting. Is it possible to remove other algorithms and mainly the ones that are not in public domain?
Your linker should do this for you if you build Crypto++ as a lib and link it in to your code.
Thank you, + Vasu
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