On 2011-06-21 11:50 PM, Peter Gutmann wrote: > The problem is that
introducing a totally new crypto API today is going to be pretty much impossible. The NSA, in the mid to late 1990s, when the only well-established crypto API around was PKCS #11, published three different reports on crypto API design, presumably to meet the sorts of goals you're listing, but AFAIK the work never went anywhere. Now we have PKCS #11, CryptoAPI, JCE, OpenSSL, and some others, as well-established, entrenched APIs.
Standards are good, everyone should have their own. That there are "some others" suggests the usual long tail of standards. _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
