# OpenSSL support for IronRuby **URL:** \ **Category:** IronRuby\ **Created:** [September 23, 2010, 7:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-support-for-ironruby/195487 "2010-09-23T19:44:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![barby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@barby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/barby)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 7:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-support-for-ironruby/195487/1 "2010-09-23T19:44:06Z")
I don’t know if openssl is still a problem for IronRuby on mono But the JRuby guys are using bouncy castle to get that support. As it so happens there is also a .Net provider for bouncy castle. [http://www.bouncycastle.org/csharp/](http://www.bouncycastle.org/csharp/) Cheers ---
**Author:** ![barby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@barby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/barby)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-support-for-ironruby/195487/2 "2010-09-23T21:52:19Z")
Yeah, I saw that a couple months ago when I stated some work on trying to use the native .NET crypto APIs. You know, before I realized I was in over my head 🙂 I haven’t had time to look into wrapping the Bouncy Castle assembly for IronRuby, but I would think it would be orders of magnitude easier to create a pure Ruby wrapper over that assembly. – Will G. [http://hotgazpacho.org/](http://hotgazpacho.org/) ---
**Author:** ![barby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@barby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/barby)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 7:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/openssl-support-for-ironruby/195487/3 "2010-09-24T07:41:43Z")
Nice find, Ivan. I’ll have to look into it when I get the chance. - Charles