With the focus these days on writing secure applications it seems building this functionality into the language would be pretty high on the list. These are common API's found in modern languages and it would be nice to not have to use hackish techniques like bridging into CommonCrypto to achieve this.
Travis Beech | Principal Developer | Unwired Revolution | c: 1 (209) 535-5357 Optimizing Operations for Mobile and Distributed Systems On Apr 12, 2016, at 11:06 PM, Brent Royal-Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: >> It would seem to me that common crypto routines should become part of the >> core Swift libraries without having to rely on unknown third party libraries >> or bridging into the C based CommonCrypto lib. > > This seems like a great candidate for a library that could be developed in > the community and then possibly brought into Corelibs in a future version, > but I strongly suspect it'll be considered out of scope for Swift 3. > > -- > Brent Royal-Gordon > Architechies > _______________________________________________ swift-evolution mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution
