Hi René, we sincerely appreciate your effort to port Botan to strongSwan since we think it is of utmost importance to have a robust crypto library supporting the latest cryptographic algorithms as an alternative to openssl. If you are going to contribute the source code for a libstrongswan botan plugin then the strongSwan project mandates that you should do that under an MIT license (preferred) or any BSD-type license.
If you have any questions concerning the libstrongswan crypto interface or the plugin registration mechanism just contact either me or Tobias Brunner. Best regards Andreas On 17.06.2017 12:00, René Korthaus wrote: > Hi, > > for the past two years and ongoing, we have been doing a development > project for the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). > The goal of this project "Secure implementation of a universal > cryptographic library" [1] was to have a cryptographic library that > contains all common cryptographic primitives that are necessary for the > wide use of cryptographic operations, but at the same time follows the > recommendations of BSI's technical guidelines [2]. In this project, we > evaluated 18 open source libraries and eventually selected the Botan > cryptographic library [3]. For the past 1 1/2 years, we have made > various improvements to Botan, from security improvements and new > features to documentation and CI improvements. We also audited relevant > parts of Botan. We have contributed all of our changes to upstream, in > almost 90 pull requests up to now. We will continue supporting the Botan > project with contributions and audits for the time to come. > > We started porting our products to Botan already some while ago and are > now putting efforts into adding support for Botan into other open source > software we are using. We will soon be starting to work on a Botan > plugin for libstrongswan, where we would like to contribute our work to > upstream. From talking with people from other German vendors of IT > security products I know there is an increased interest in using > strongswan with Botan in their products, too. > > We already started looking into things such as the plugin build system > and the crypto test suite. We will raise any questions arising using > this list. I will probably post the first one later this day. > > Any feedback is much appreciated. > > Best regards, > René > > [1] > https://www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Themen/Kryptotechnologie/Kryptobibliothek/kryptobibliothek_node.html > [2] > https://www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Publikationen/TechnischeRichtlinien/technischerichtlinien_node.html > [3] https://botan.randombit.net/ > ====================================================================== Andreas Steffen [email protected] strongSwan - the Open Source VPN Solution! www.strongswan.org Institute for Networked Solutions HSR University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil CH-8640 Rapperswil (Switzerland) ===========================================================[INS-HSR]==
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