>>>>> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 16:34:39 +0200, François Désarménien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>said:
fd> Hello to all of you !
fd> It's been a long time since I last posted to "modules", but
fd> here I'm back again.
Hi!
fd> For academical reasons, I've been playing with the libcrypto
fd> from the OpenSSL project, and I've came with a usable BigNumber
fd> cryptographically oriented Perl module. While investigating
fd> more deeply the library, I came upon the idea of writing a
fd> bundle of modules implementing from low to high level the
fd> crypto algorithms available in the libcrypto. It's maybe --
fd> let me know your opinion about it -- a little bit duplicate
fd> with the MCrypt, but I really like the OpenSSL implementation
fd> and I think it's worth contributing. But that's _my_ opinion,
fd> of course.
I like it. (Disclaimer: I'm no crypto expert.) Have you seen
Crypt::OpenSSL::BN (Contact Author Ian Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA (I/IR/IROBERTS/Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA-0.11.tar.gz)
Crypt::OpenSSL::Random (I/IR/IROBERTS/Crypt-OpenSSL-Random-0.02.tar.gz)
OpenCA::OpenSSL (M/MA/MADWOLF/OpenCA-OpenSSL-0.6.3a.tar.gz)
fd> As the name 'OpenSSL' cannot be freely used (because of the
fd> license terms), I was thinking of
fd> Crypto::LibCrypto::*
fd> namespace, with sub-modules as
fd> Crypto::LibCrypto::BN for BIGNUM interface
fd> Crypto::LibCrypto::RSA for RSA interface
fd> Crypto::LibCrypto::IDEA for IDEA interface
fd> and so on (like the prefixes in the OpenSSL API)...
A shorter name would be worthwhile for such a huge project.
Crypt::OpenSSL seems the natural choice and IROBERTS didn't bother
with a license term on a name. I don't know, but Crypto::LibCrypto
somehow sucks too much. Maybe Crypt::LibSSL?
fd> Just let me know your thoughts about it. I've already a fully
fd> implemented (but not yet documented) OO and overloaded ::BN
fd> implementation available (with random and primes generation),
fd> which I could submit very quickly.
Please coordinate with IROBERTS.
Thanks,
--
andreas
