Are there any encryption / secure sockets?

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Tommy,

On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Tommy W wrote:

> Not quite sure, will look into it further. I was looking at the openssl 
> libraries, they only had some 'notice'-remarks in their license.

Openssl is probably your best bet. It doesn't touch wxWidgets at all, they 
are independent, so you may have trouble linking wxSocket classes to 
openssl (I haven't tried it).

> Btw, does anyone know how you 'talk with a bank' ?

Most banks won't talk directly to you unless you have a lot of money. 
Assuming that you don't, check out paypal, nochex and worldpay instead.

> I aim to develop a program which will handle some money, meaning 
> insertion of money through visa -> bank account and the other way around 
> bank account -> visa should work. I seriously hope encryption is used in 
> these cirumstances :)

Yes, it is usually HTTPS (HTTP over SSL).

> So my question is if anyone knows what kind of encryption is most 
> commonly used and perhaps some links for further reading? been googling 
> for hours , but me and google doesn't come along very well

Then you should learn google, it will help you much more in life than we 
can.

Cheers, Chris.
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