Hi Alex, I think I've seen your github pull request (along with a handful from timw), my concern was that none of the pull requests are getting merged or commented on and no activity in bc-csharp since it was uploaded to github.
Jeff On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 5:51 AM, Alexander Philippou <a...@noemax.com>wrote: > Hi Jeff,**** > > ** ** > > Not exactly an answer to your questions, but fwiw we recently ported to C# > the current TLS and DTLS implementations from Java, both server and client > side, and contributed them to the BC team. I expect they will be made > public in the next few weeks. We also plan to give an occasional helping > hand to BC on the C# side of things, especially transport-related stuff. > Just fyi, so that you know that there is both interest and activity here.* > *** > > ** ** > > Cheers,**** > > Alexander**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* Jeff Stedfast [mailto:j...@xamarin.com] > *Sent:* Friday 25 October 2013 05:26 > *To:* Bouncy Castle Developer List > *Subject:* [dev-crypto-csharp] PGP/MIME, S/MIME and the future of Bouncy > Castle for C#**** > > ** ** > > Hello,**** > > ** ** > > I've been lurking for the past 2 weeks or so and the list seems pretty > quiet for the most part. I've also noticed that the github repository is > more-or-less inactive and that makes me rather sad :-(**** > > ** ** > > Who are the developers that are actively still hacking on the project?**** > > ** ** > > What can be done to help?**** > > ** ** > > Is development taking place on github? Or is it happening elsewhere?**** > > ** ** > > I noticed that there is an outstanding bug filed for the C# version of > BouncyCastle to implement S/MIME support that is apparently waiting on a > javamail replacement on .NET.**** > > ** ** > > If that is the case, then perhaps that is the best way that I can > contribute to this project.**** > > ** ** > > I've currently implemented a C# MIME library called MimeKit on GitHub: > http://github.com/jstedfast/MimeKit**** > > ** ** > > I have loads of experience writing MIME libraries/parsers spanning back > more than a decade and have implemented PGP/MIME in Evolution and in my > personal side-project, GMime (a MIME parser written in C). I also > contributed to and/or wrote the S/MIME support in both of those products as > well as implementing S/MIME support in MimeKit recently.**** > > ** ** > > However, the problem I am now facing is that Mono's System.Security does > not implement all of the CMS APIs and is missing some of the meat in the > X509Certificate2 APIs as well, which is what has brought me to > BouncyCastle. Presently, MimeKit's implementation of S/MIME only works on > Windows, but I want it to work on Linux, Mac, iOS, and Android (for those > using Xamarin.iOS and/or Xamarin.Android). Windows Phone 8 would also be > nice, but I suspect that would be doable using Microsoft's APIs.**** > > ** ** > > Since I'm also interested in adding PGP/MIME (rfc2015, 3156, and whatever > the latest update to those specs are), I've been trying to find a nice and > elegant way of doing that in C#. Sadly, C# APIs do not provide a nice way > to do IPC with programs like gnupg, so my options are limited if I want > portability... again leading me to BouncyCastle for the OpenPGP > implementation.**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > I guess what I want to know is:**** > > ** ** > > 1. Would this be something the Bouncy Castle development team would be > interested in?**** > > ** ** > > 2. Is the Bouncy Castle development team even still around in any real > capacity? If the project is more-or-less dead, I'll probably just fork > Bouncy Castle to make whatever modifications I need and continue on my way. > If, at some later point, development starts back up again, they are free to > use MimeKit (and I highly recommend that you do, because every other .NET > MIME parser that exists currently is broken beyond repair).**** > > ** ** > > 3. JavaMail is more than just a MIME library. MimeKit is not. Is this a > problem?**** > > ** ** > > I am considering working on a "MailKit" library which would be built on > top of MimeKit in order to add IMAP, POP, and SMTP support but I don't > necessarily want to commit myself to doing that alone. I should also note > that MimeKit and my plans for MailKit are not an identical API to JavaMail > (I don't know if that matters or not), similar to an extent, but based more > on a C library I had been working on before I threw my hands in the air and > decided that even if I were to finish, I'd never want to write another mail > client in C/C++. (This is what has led to the development of MimeKit which > is loosely based on my GMime library).**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > Hoping to hear back,**** > > ** ** > > Jeff**** > > ** ** >
