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Re: Wherein I argue for the inclusion of libnettle in Emacs 24.5
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Daiki Ueno |
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Re: Wherein I argue for the inclusion of libnettle in Emacs 24.5 |
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Wed, 05 Feb 2014 14:11:59 +0900 |
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Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:
> Encryption is, I think, especially fiddly to get right. That is,
> there are plenty of projects that have gotten it wrong over the years.
> Using the C interfaces in the intended way would help a bit.
I don't know what exactly you mean with "encryption", but real world
use-cases of encryption are not that simple. Even for symmetric
encryption, you will probably need to consider secret key derivation,
padding, etc. Using the C interfaces for them in the intended way would
be fiddly to get right.
GPG implements a good set of those already, in an interoperable way. On
the other hand, who will trust such encrypting code written by a guy
with no crypto/security background?
> That is, there are plenty of projects that have gotten it wrong over
> the years.
As far as I know, only projects that have gotten problems with EPG were
written by the same author who never try to understand the concepts of
EPG/GPG and repeatedly pushes his own fancy crypto ideas with
hypothetical use-cases.
--
Daiki Ueno
- Re: Wherein I argue for the inclusion of libnettle in Emacs 24.5, (continued)
- Re: Wherein I argue for the inclusion of libnettle in Emacs 24.5, Ted Zlatanov, 2014/02/04
- Re: Wherein I argue for the inclusion of libnettle in Emacs 24.5, Paul Eggert, 2014/02/04
- Re: Wherein I argue for the inclusion of libnettle in Emacs 24.5, Ted Zlatanov, 2014/02/04
- Re: Wherein I argue for the inclusion of libnettle in Emacs 24.5, Paul Eggert, 2014/02/04
- Re: Wherein I argue for the inclusion of libnettle in Emacs 24.5, Ted Zlatanov, 2014/02/04
- Re: Wherein I argue for the inclusion of libnettle in Emacs 24.5, Paul Eggert, 2014/02/04
- Re: Wherein I argue for the inclusion of libnettle in Emacs 24.5, Ted Zlatanov, 2014/02/04
- Re: Wherein I argue for the inclusion of libnettle in Emacs 24.5, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2014/02/04
- Re: Wherein I argue for the inclusion of libnettle in Emacs 24.5,
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