Re: [GNU Crypto] Design overview of GNU Crypto?

[Casey Marshall]

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Marcel Winandy wrote:
| 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.
|

Of course, any help you could provide with this P1363 beast would be
greatly appreciated.

A few months ago I started writing some TeXinfo documentation that gave
a brief overview of GNU Crypto's API; it is far from complete, but may
give a few hints at the library's overall structure:

~   http://metastatic.org/text/Documentation/gnu-crypto/
~   http://metastatic.org/text/Documentation/gnu-crypto/manual.html
~   http://metastatic.org/text/Documentation/gnu-crypto/manual.pdf

This might not be exactly what you are looking for, but may help. Right
now this document gives a general intro to the highest-level interface
- -- the various public interfaces and the factory classes. Note that this
document is a rough draft and is NOT in any way official.

Cheers + HTH,

- --
Casey Marshall || address@hidden
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