Hi, On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 22:14, Raif S. Naffah wrote: > Is therre an interest in incorporating the GNU Crypto library > <http://www.gnu.org/software/classpathx/crypto/crypto.html> in other GNU > project(s)?
Yes that would be nice. GNU Classpath (which is being merged with libgcj) has a very basic Security Provider for SHA, MD5, DSA and a simple Der reader/writer. I just fixed a couple of typos that prevented some classes from ever getting actually loaded which indicates that they are not really used much in real code and might be buggy. Do you have testcases/programs for your package? Mark Benvenuto wrote most of the java.security stuff but I don't know if he is still around on the mailinglist. If he doesn't speak up on the mailinglist you might want to contact him to ask about the status of the current Classpath implementations ([EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]). I don't know which crypto algorithms a java implementation should at least support (I know the SHA MessageDigest is actually used for serialVersionUIDs). But maybe we can import those into GNU Classpath directly. It would make sense to at least add pointers to the GNU crypto package to the documentation and make it as easy as possible for a user that uses GNU Classpath with a certain VM to add the GNU crypto package as an additional provider. For gcj it would be nice if GNU crypto was available as a shared library that could just be installed by the user to get access to the advanced cryptography classes. The security provider architecture should make this easy but I have never done it with any of the free VMs. Note that I couldn't download the package since the links on your homepage don't work (404 for the current version links) or don't provide the actual distribution (for ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/classpathx). Cheers, Mark _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
