On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Marsh Ray <ma...@extendedsubset.com> wrote: > * There already are crypto APIs being defined in RFCs, they're just ad-hoc > and lacking interoperability. E.g. > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6234#section-8.1
See also RFC3961 (the Kerberos V5 cryptosystem). Specifying an abstract API for the Kerberos cryptosystem made security analysis of subsequent Kerberos RFCs easier. It also helped implementors. The Kerberos cryptosystem is too specific in its purpose to be a good general-purpose crypto API. But it is a good example of a standard crypto API. Nico -- _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
