Hi,

   I'm working on an application that requires RSA and RC5 cryptography but 
need some help. Before describing the problem, I must confess that I'm quite a 
newbie in digital security, so please be patient.
   According to the Palm OS Reference, there's only one cryptography algorithm 
available in the OS: RC4. So I obviously need to find the ones I need somewhere 
else. Searching the Internet and this forum's archives I found some 
alternatives:
   1) pilotSSLeay (http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/pilot/). It  supports RSA 
but does not support RC5. Also, it's GPL'd. By the way, linking to a GPL'd 
shared library means that my application is GPL? I'm sure it does for desktops, 
but is this true also for the kind of linking used in Palm OS?
   2) RSA SecurID for Palm 
(http://downloads.zdnet.com/download.aspx?&docid=77351&promo=100511). According 
to this link, "It also offers shared APIs for developers", but I didn't find 
any reference to this API.
   3) Find an open implementation and port to Palm OS.

   Any suggestion? Any tip on #1 or #2? Could one of them solve my problem?
   I'd really like to avoid option #3, but if there's no other way, can someone 
suggest an implementation easily portable for Palm OS? Has anyone on the list 
already done that?

   TIA,
   Luciano

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