This is libray of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXTEA for lua for very simple encryption. Compile in gcc with gcc --shared -fPIC -O2 -o xxtea.so xxtea.c Use in lua require'xxtea' str = 'something' key = 'abcd1234abcd1234' encstr = xxtea.encrypt( str, key ) decstr = xxtea.decrypt( encstr, key ) where the key is a 128 bit hex string