hello Morgon, On Wednesday 31 May 2006 21:59, Morgon Kanter wrote: > Hello, > > Somewhat recently, the gnu-crypto project got merged into Classpath. > As I live in a cave underground and only come out once every few > months, I was unaware of this and working on a few new block cipher > implementations for gnu-crypto, using their old CVS sources. > > The old homepage of gnu-crypto said that they were looking for > someone to add in the NESSIE phase 2 algorithms; this hasn't been > done yet, from what I see in both the gnu-crypto and classpath CVS. > I'd be happy to write implementations of these, but the obvious > question is: would these, and other, new block ciphers even be wanted > in Classpath? It looks like all of gnu-crypto was merged in, but the > merge announcement contains the following: > > "[W]e would entertain reviving GNU Crypto if someone wanted to > continue developing it for other purposes (that is, if you have a use > for GNU Crypto outside of Classpath's more narrow goal of completing > its JCE providers)" > > Which implies that further ciphers wouldn't be wanted or needed for > Classpath. So, yes, my question is: would new block ciphers be wanted > in Classpath?
i for one wouldn't be against adding new ciphers, especially the "focus" candidates in the eSTREAM project. cheers; rsn
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