[GNU Crypto] Design overview of GNU Crypto?

[Marcel Winandy]

Hello!

I think your GNU Crypto Project is a very good idea. On the project homepage 
is stated that there will be an implementation of IEEE P1363 algorithms. This 
is very interesting because I was involved in developing a complete 
implementation of IEEE P1363 in the Java programming language. We had already 
some discussion about distributing our library under the GPL license. But a 
dicision is not made until today.

Now, I'm trying to understand your implementation in order to figure out some 
possible cooperation or integration. Does any documentation on a higher level 
than Java API-Doc exists? Some design description or UML charts would be very 
useful to get a quick overview.

As far as I've seen you are supporting Sun's JCE architecture. We did not 
because of certain reasons. Our implementation was "P1363-only", although AES 
was integrated as a fast symmetric cipher algorithm and El-Gamal as a cipher 
algorithm based on elliptic curves.

In order to possibly help you and your project it would be a great help for me 
if you had some more information about the design aspects of GNU Crypto. 

With best regards
 Marcel Winandy
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