Re: FOSDEM 2016 was awesome! Let's do FOSDEM 2017 - add talk proposals

2016-08-26 Thread Pjotr Prins
Proposals for talks should be added here: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/TalkProposals The more talks proposed the better! Generally, talks will be 20 minutes. The Google Summer of Code students should post a talk - even if you can't make it. It is an advertisement of your project. P

Re: Solid modeling in Guile

2016-08-26 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() Alex Kost () Fri, 19 Aug 2016 12:29:46 +0300 Usually modules are defined like this: (define-module (ao bind) #:use-modules (srfi srfi-1) #:use-modules (ice-9 i18n) #:use-modules (system foreign)) Minor correction: ‘s/#:use-modules/#:use-module/g’. -- Thien-Thi Nguyen

Sufficiently safe random information for security-critical Guile applications

2016-08-26 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Hello! So, as some of you know, I'm working on a federation implementation in Guile. This needs a few things: - Random tokens which won't collide, for various purposes - The ability to generate a solid random key, which is used for... - The ability to generate an HMAC (for signed cooke based

Re: Sufficiently safe random information for security-critical Guile applications

2016-08-26 Thread Josh Datko
On Fri, 2016-08-26 at 14:59 -0500, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > Hello!  So, as some of you know, I'm working on a federation > implementation in Guile.  This needs a few things: > >  - Random tokens which won't collide, for various purposes There's a function in libgcrypt, gcry_create_nonce.