Curious: How to you get to OpenSSL, JNI? JNA? Gary
On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 10:51 PM, Chen, Haifeng <haifeng.c...@intel.com> wrote: > Thanks Gary. > > >> Would Commons Crypto focus only on AES? If so, Commons Crypto AES or > Commons AES would be a better name. > Currently, this module supports only AES modes. To help folks with > information for making decision, a little further clarification from me may > help. > > The project doesn't implement directly the cryptographic algorithms. It > provides: > 1. It provides a thin layer of Cipher to abstract the under-layer Cipher > implementations. (currently support JCE Cipher or OpenSSL Cipher > implementations). This is for optimization purposes, for example OpenSSL > Cipher implementation provides 17+x performance for AES/CTR comparing with > JDK 6 and 5x comparing JDK 7/8. > 2. It provides a layer of stream and channel implementations abstracting > Input source and Output target utilizing the Cipher layer. The layer can be > used easily by applications that needs to encrypt/decrypt data streams or > channels. > 3. Additionally, it provides a secure random utility classes to help > generate TRUE random numbers for key generation. > > While there is no technical barrier for it to support other algorithms > such as RC4 through JCE or OpenSSL. Just depends how widely this is > required. > > Thanks, > Haifeng > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gary Gregory [mailto:garydgreg...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, February 22, 2016 11:36 AM > To: Commons Developers List <dev@commons.apache.org> > Subject: Re: [crypto][chimera] Next steps > > Would Commons Crypto focus only on AES? If so, Commons Crypto AES or > Commons AES would be a better name. > > Gary > > On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 6:28 PM, Chen, Haifeng <haifeng.c...@intel.com> > wrote: > > > Thanks Benedikt, Uma, Gary, Ole, and Emmanuel Bourg for your support! > > It's great to have Chimera to be part of Apache Commons. > > > > >>[ Emmanuel Bourg] Define the scope of the project? Do we go after > > >>Bouncy > > Castle and aim for an equivalent feature set? > > Agree to make a clear scope of the project. The original Chimera scope > > is not go after a Bouncy Castle style of library. It targets the gap > > between the application and the under cipher implementations. For > > example, applications uses a lot of InputStream/OutputStream or > > Channel concepts to read / write a stream of data. Application can > > share these Crypto streams/channel implementations abstracting various > input and output types. > > Chimera also targets to very important performance optimizations on > > AES which is used worldwide. I suggest this module to be still > > lightweight and clear in involving, which is the same ideology of Apache > Commons. > > > > >> [Uma] Here I would like to introduce Haifeng, who lead the efforts > > >> in > > Chimera github project. > > Thanks Uma for introduction. > > > > >> [Uma] Me and Haifeng had some discussion yesterday for the list to > > >> get > > commit prevs. May be he could probably get list. Then I think Commons > > PMC can make a decision on it. > > Chimera has 5 long standing contributors on github. We can also invite > > those who contributed the HDFS encryption feature (HDFS-6134 and > > HADOOP-10150) to continue participate the involution of this project > > if they want. > > > > Thanks, > > Haifeng > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Gangumalla, Uma [mailto:uma.ganguma...@intel.com] > > Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2016 3:07 AM > > To: Commons Developers List <dev@commons.apache.org> > > Subject: Re: [crypto][chimera] Next steps > > > > Hi Benedikt, > > > > Thank you for the Next steps discussion. I thought of pinging you on > > this > > :-) > > > > Here I would like to introduce Haifeng, who lead the efforts in > > Chimera github project. > > > > I think Apache Commons Crypto looks good and self descriptive IMO. > > I am +1 > > > > Me and Haifeng had some discussion yesterday for the list to get > > commit prevs. May be he could probably get list. Then I think Commons > > PMC can make a decision on it. > > > > > > >move code to an Apache repo (probably git?!) > > +1 for git > > > > >- setup maven build > > If this point is just about maven build alone, then we should set up > > Jenkins CI build boat as well right, may be we can add this point? > > > > Regards, > > Uma > > > > On 2/20/16, 8:29 AM, "Gary Gregory" <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > >Who are the committers comming along for this component? > > > > > >Do we have enough of them? > > > > > >I like Apache Commons Crypto. > > > > > >Gary > > >On Feb 20, 2016 3:15 AM, "Benedikt Ritter" <brit...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> I'd like to discuss the next steps for moving the Chimera component > > >>to Apache Commons. So far, none of the other PMC members has > > >>expressed his or her thoughts about this. If nobody brings up > > >>objections about moving the component to Apache Commons, I'm > > >>assuming lazy consensus about this. > > >> > > >> So the next steps would be: > > >> - decide on a name for the new component (my proposal was Apache > > >> Commons > > >> Crypto) > > >> - move code to an Apache repo (probably git?!) > > >> - request a Jira project > > >> - setup maven build > > >> - setup project website > > >> - work on an initial release under Apache Commons coordinates > > >> > > >> Anything missing? > > >> > > >> Regards, > > >> Benedikt > > >> > > >> -- > > >> http://home.apache.org/~britter/ > > >> http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter > > >> http://github.com/britter > > >> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > > > > -- > E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org Java Persistence > with Hibernate, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in > Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> > Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
