[pacman-dev] Crypto algorithms

[Roman Kyrylych]

2007/4/9, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:
> We have a rather ragtag set of cryptography functions in use right
> now, and weird files being used (md5driver? wtf). Looking around I
> came across these LGPLed hash libraries that we can probably use in
> pacman.
>
> BeeCrypt- http://directory.fsf.org/security/crypt/BeeCrypt.html
> Documentation- http://beecrypt.sourceforge.net/doxygen/c/index.html
>
> Any reason not to go for this? I haven't looked super closely but I
> think it would make sense to clean this up a bit in order to allow for
> any future extensibility we may want. These seem like cleanly written
> algorithms that we can drop in to our code base as they are LGPL.
>
> Thoughts appreciated. Have to start cleaning somewhere.
>

Wow, this lib is exactly what I was looking for long time ago.
Only useful algorithms, portable, and nice API.
Looks very good candidate.

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)