On 5/10/05, Stefan Bodewig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > members of the Maven, Ant and Repository teams have been thinking > about adding PGP support to their respective projects for a while, but > so far neither of those projects has made any real attempt to do so. > > Some discussion on the Ant dev list that involved Ant and Maven > committers lead to the idea of commons-pgp. > > The goal is a library that provides a simple API to PGP sign files (or > streams?) and verify PGP signatures. This may be extended to key > management or encryption/decryption later. The idea is to start with > an implementation based on Bouncycastle's[1] library but keep the API > independent of it in order to allow different providers like > cryptix[2] to be written. > > The library itself is supposed to be independent of either Ant or > Maven. > > The initial set of committers will be Brett Porter, Matte Benson (who > is an Ant committer, I've just granted him commit access to the > sandbox) and myself, but more helping hands are certainly welcome. > > So far all there is is a README file describing the purpose of the > component. We probably should have an API sketch before we go further > than that. Somebody with commons karma will have to add pgp to the > externals of trunks-sandox at one point.
Can you elaborate, please? What needs to be added to what, exactly? And when is "some point"? ;-) -- Martin Cooper > Based on the projects involved the question probably won't be whether > we use Maven or Ant to build the project, we'll support both. 8-) > > Cheers > > Stefan > > Footnotes: > [1] http://www.bouncycastle.org/ > > [2] http://www.cryptix.org/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
