[Cryptography-dev] Let the flood gates open!

[Hynek Schlawack]

I’d think concentrating on giving JP what he needs for pyopenssl might be less work with quicker and  actually *useful* results?

Am 08.09.2013 um 05:42 schrieb Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor at gmail.com>:

> So, Twisted has an implementation of the SSH protocol, that currently uses PyCrypto. I got curious what things it needed to be ported to cryptography, here's the feature list I came up with:
> 
> * Keypair generation for both RSA and DSA
> * General manipulation of RSA and DSA (exact nature unchecked)
> * Conert a long to a bytestring with its twos complement representation (out of
>   scope)
> * Convert a twos complement representation of a long into a long (out of scope)
> * DES3 for block ciphers
> * Decryption for block ciphers
> * CTR mode
> * Blowfish
> * CAST
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
> On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think we're basically agreed on the API for symmetric ciphers. Good places to jump in might be: exposing more algorithms, or implementing the decrypt() pathway!
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
> On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Jarret Raim <jarret.raim at rackspace.com> wrote:
> I have a long plane flight coming up. Any low hanging fruit I can help with?
> 
> Maybe something where the interface is simple / settled?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jarret Raim
> 
> Sent from my phone, please excuse the mistakes.
> 
> On Sep 7, 2013, at 2:16 PM, "Alex Gaynor" <alex.gaynor at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hynek just merged the AES patch, so now we have some actual crypto. I think it's time for us to get moving forwards:
> >
> > * More ciphers / modes (particularly I think a bunch of us want to make GCM a thing)
> > * Starting to think about primitives that aren't block ciphers
> >
> > Let's do it!
> > Alex
> >
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