[PYTHON-CRYPTO] Near-term projects for pycrypto

[Mark Brady]

I could implement a Java JCE (Java Cryptography Extension) based driver so that Jython could use the pycrypo interface. It's cool to see pycrypto take off.

Mark.

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On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:34:40
 M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>"Mayers, Philip J" wrote:
>>
>> Just for fun, how about this - implement the generalised public key function
>> listed in Applied Crypto (can't recall the name off the top of my head - the
>> one that makes El Gamal, RSA, DSA etc. all subsets of the same basic
>> algorithm).
>>
>> Or, drop it, and wrap OpenSSL's public key stuff.
>
>As suggested in another posting: I'd go with the driver paradigm
>here, ie. provide Python or C extension defaults and high-performance
>OpenSSL implementation as optional driver.
>
>BTW, I've extended mxCrypto to support RSA and DSA; it's just not ready
>for prime-time yet.
>
>> What's your take on putting SSL/TLS in there? Zope's ZServer using one
>> crypto library.. mmm...
>
>I suppose M2Crypto could be used as a driver as well. It also
>links to OpenSSL.
>
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