On 12/28/2012 05:13 PM, brian m. carlson wrote:
>> Fortunately for my own Crypt::OpenPGP goals, recent work on Math::Prime
>> and Crypt::RSA might relieve us of some Math::PARI dependencies, which
>> could clear the way forward for Crypt::OpenPGP (finally!) by jessie.
> 
> Can you point me to where that work's occuring?  I'd be happy to
> contribute if it means I don't need Math::PARI.

https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52689

It looks like there's some rough consensus to have the PARI-less
Crypt::RSA become the new version of Crypt::RSA soon.  I was planning to
ITP it when that happens (though i might also consider packaging
Alt::Crypt::RSA::BigInt first, if anyone with deeper debian-perl
knowledge can provide guidance on how "Ingy's Alt namespace idea" might
interact with debian packaging).

>> brian, what in particular do you want or need Math::PARI for?  Maybe
>> there's another route that would help you get to your goal?
> 
> As I said, I want it for Crypt::OpenPGP.  Crypt::OpenPGP sounds
> interesting, but it can't yet be used to build a fully-featured OpenPGP
> implementation.  I want to change that, and I'd like to build such an
> implementation, as well as a keyserver that honors the no-modify bit.

sweet, i'm glad we're on the same page.  sorry i missed your earlier
comment about Crypt::OpenPGP.

> I'd like to point out that several other modules are missing for
> Crypt::OpenPGP to be functional without using cpan.  I can open RFPs for
> those if there's interest in packaging them.

Which modules are those?  I haven't looked at the chain in a little
while, but i thought we'd packaged up most of the rest of the non-PARI
dependencies.  I'm probably wrong :)

        --dkg

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