Re: [GNU Crypto] latest checkins

[Raif S. Naffah]

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hello Casey,

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 12:43 pm, Casey Marshall wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 11:03:26AM +1000, Raif S. Naffah wrote:
> > ...
> > hopefully also by then, all needed algorithms and primitives
> > required by (a) Jessie, and (b) a GNU Keyring File manager, would
> > be present and ~tested.
>
> I've just finished PBKDF2 and a test case for it; I was planning to
> check it in tomorrow. I have also started on PBES2 cipher adapters
> for the JCE provider.

good.  i dont need to do these then.


> An initial revision of GNU Keyrings is about half done, and I will
> (hopefully) have something working next week.

good to hear.


> Some test programs using Jessie can work with GCC 3.4, modulo some
> stability bugs (occasionally it just ends with "Aborted", or, less
> often, "Illegal Instruction"), and with this patch:
>
> <http://metastatic.org/source/jessie/libjava-rsa.patch.gz>
>
> Which adds PKCS#1 1.5 RSA signatures to the "Gnu" provider, similar
> to the patch I posted to the Classpath list awhile ago.

the "GNU" Provider is supposed to offer what the standard JDK offers in 
term of cryptography.  to my knowledege this scheme (unless i'm 
mistaken) is not part of the JDK --only the DSA is.  all additional 
bells and whistles are in external extensions; i.e. in our case GNU 
Crypto.  so IMO digital signature schemes, other than DSA should be all 
in one place.

anyway, there is now an implementation of this signature scheme in the 
CVS.  i've already announced that i was working on one in:

http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-crypto-discuss/2003-08/msg00010.html


cheers;
rsn
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