On Sun, 22 May 2005, Ben Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: >> There is a proposed "PGP" package being discussed in Jakarta >> Commons. Would there be any overlap at lower levels (not at the WS >> layer) between them, providing for some collaboration? > > This strikes me as orthogonal,
Same here. > but it might be of interest that I'm currently working on a > to-be-BSD-licensed (or equivalent) PGP C library. Interesting, yes. The goal of the commons component is to provide an easier API for the "simple" task of signing a stream or verifying the signature. This is what the Maven and Ant build tools would need today. En-/Decryprion may come later as well. There already exist at least two "license compatible" Java libraries that provide OpenPGP functionality (bouncycastle.org and cryptix.org) so the component is also going to provide an implementation agnostic interface. Bindings to command line invocations of OpenPGP compatible toolkits or JNI bindings to a C-library would certainly be possible as well. > BTW, its properly called OpenPGP. We started with PGP (based on ignorance, mainly 8-) but have made up our mind already and will call it commons-openpgp. Unless we broaden the scope even more so it would become commons-crypto - in which case there'd be more overlap with XML security or TSIK. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
