With the open sourcing of Swift and the growing concerns around security and
user privacy, Swift is lacking common crypto API’s as part of the core
libraries. I’d like to propose that we add common crypto functionality as part
of the Swift Core Libraries. I believe that something as important as
encryption, hashing, and certificate handling should come as part of the core
libraries and not provided by a 3rd party library.
Below are examples of what I would imagine the Core Libraries would provide:
Encryption
- Symmetric Encryption
- e.g. AES
- Asymmetric Encryption
- e.g. RSA
Hashing
- Keyed Hashing
- e.g. HMACSHA1
- Un-keyed Hashing
- e.g. MD5
Certificate Handling
- X509 Certificates
- Certificate based authentication
- Certificate import, e.g. PEM
- SSL pinning
Travis Beech | Principal Developer | Unwired Revolution
Optimizing Operations for Mobile and Distributed Systems
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