Re: [GNUnet-developers] Guix - GNUnet binary ditribution roadmap

2014-03-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: Christian Grothoff groth...@in.tum.de skribis: On 03/14/2014 02:27 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Guix is not tied to any particular public key crypto algorithm. Currently we typically use RSA key, as you note, but we could just as well tell libgcrypt to

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Guix - GNUnet binary ditribution roadmap

2014-03-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Christian Grothoff groth...@in.tum.de skribis: On 03/14/2014 12:08 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Christian Grothoff groth...@in.tum.de skribis: Ludo, would you please consider moving to the GNU Name System? Guix uses the SPKI-like infrastructure for purposes unrelated to the project at hand

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Guix - GNUnet binary ditribution roadmap

2014-03-14 Thread Christian Grothoff
On 03/14/2014 02:27 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Guix is not tied to any particular public key crypto algorithm. Currently we typically use RSA key, as you note, but we could just as well tell libgcrypt to use something else, no? Yes, and my point is you should. I also do not believe in giving

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Guix - GNUnet binary ditribution roadmap

2014-03-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Christian Grothoff groth...@in.tum.de skribis: On 03/14/2014 02:27 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Guix is not tied to any particular public key crypto algorithm. Currently we typically use RSA key, as you note, but we could just as well tell libgcrypt to use something else, no? Yes, and my

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Guix - GNUnet binary ditribution roadmap

2014-03-13 Thread Sree Harsha Totakura
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/13/2014 12:15 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Is it possible to have several values associated with a key in the DHT? I’m asking because here we’d need to have the ability to get zero or more tuples as described above, one tuple for each node

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Guix - GNUnet binary ditribution roadmap

2014-03-13 Thread Christian Grothoff
Ludo, would you please consider moving to the GNU Name System? GNS is based on SDSI/SPKI (delegation certificates!), and has many other advantages (not to mention uses Curve25519 instead of RSA). GNUnet's identity management is based on Curve25519 ECDSA signatures, and we are using libgcrypt for

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Guix - GNUnet binary ditribution roadmap

2014-03-13 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Christian Grothoff groth...@in.tum.de skribis: Ludo, would you please consider moving to the GNU Name System? Guix uses the SPKI-like infrastructure for purposes unrelated to the project at hand (to sign/authenticate archives.) However, it probably makes sense to rely more on GNS in whatever

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Guix - GNUnet binary ditribution roadmap

2014-03-12 Thread Sree Harsha Totakura
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/12/2014 09:56 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Let's just stick with the GNUnet server (we call such a server as a service in GNUnet, let's call it Guix service) as of now. HTTP can be done optionally. Moreover the currently binary distribution