FIX security PGP/DES implementations

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[ original email was from coertnik@dnai.com - ]
At Silicon Summit Technology we are developing a general purpose FIX engine and we’d like to support PGP-DES encryption.

I’ve looked through the security stuff on on www.fixprotocol.org site
and the interface looks great.

What I didn’t find is the actual PGP and DES code.
What implementation of PGP and DES should I use
in order to be compatible with the FIX community?

Thanks for any assistance you can provide!

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[ original email was from Scott Atwell - American Century - ]
The FIX website contains both the "Application Note" (Tech Area, App Notes, Security, FIX Security Application Note) and example source code (Tech Area, Tools & Utils, PGP-PEM, PGP/PEM reference implementation (tar)).

The readme.txt in the reference implementation states:
"A suitable DES implementation may be found at:
ftp://ftp.psy.uq.oz.au/pub/Crypto/DES/libdes-x.xx.tar.gz"
(where x-xx is the current version number)

Everyone that I am aware of using PGP-DES-MD5 is using ViaCrypt PGP from PGP, Inc. (Formerly ViaCrypt corp) which is a commercial product and can be found at: www.pgp.com

Hope that helps…

Scott Atwell - American Century
scott_atwell@americancentury.com

> At Silicon Summit Technology we are developing a general purpose FIX engine and we’d like to support PGP-DES encryption.
>
> I’ve looked through the security stuff on on www.fixprotocol.org site
> and the interface looks great.
>
> What I didn’t find is the actual PGP and DES code.
> What implementation of PGP and DES should I use
> in order to be compatible with the FIX community?
>
> Thanks for any assistance you can provide!
>
> - Will Coertnik
> coertnik@dnai.com
> (415) 437-4719
>
>
>