[Cryptography-dev] Criteria for first release?

[Alex Gaynor]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

>
> On Oct 24, 2013, at 11:27 AM, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all!
> >
> > We're at an exciting point where it's actually possible to do stuff with
> cryptography. You know what that means... time to start thinking about a
> release! I'd like us to make a list of the stuff we think should be in our
> first release. Here's my list:
> >
> > * Figure out our packaging / bundling story with OpenSSL
> > * Finish binding OpenSSL to the point where JP can use it for PyOpenSSL
> > * The last two block ciphers that conch would need (CAST and Blowfish)
> > * Finalizing the iterator APIs for BlockCipher
> > * Padding APIs
> >
> > Here's stuff I'm not sure about:
> > * Everything that conch needs (this means figuring out the API for
> RSA/DSA)
> > * GCM
> > * CommonCrypto backend
>
> I’d really like to get GCM and RSA into it, GCM is something I think all
> of us wanted
> which we punted on to get the easier modes sorted out first. Without RSA
> we don’t
> have *any* asymmetric ciphers which is kinda lame.
>
> CommonCrypto I’m meh on.
>
> >
> > What do ya'll think, am I missing anything, do I have to much?
> >
> > As a heads up: once we're ready to do the release and we've frozen a
> release-candidate I plan to investigate getting it audited.
>
> Whose going to pay for an audit?
>
>
I'm going to try to get some security firms to donate it. Failing that
<we'll see>.


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