[Cryptography Team] ECC and/or NSA Suite B?

[Matthew S. Hamrick]

I have a SHA256 implementation kicking around somewhere. It's  
licensed under a BSD license, so it's unlikely to be useful for this  
project. But... feel free to look at it.

http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/3253

On Nov 24, 2006, at 12:09 PM, Krishna Sankar wrote:

> You wrote :
>>
>> 1) I love crypto, and building an ECC implementation would
>> teach me a great deal about it;
>>
>> 2) It gives me a reason to learn Smalltalk, something I've
>> toyed with a dozen times in the past but never made progress
>> at because I had nothing concrete to work on; and
>>
>> 3) It would just be fun.  I'm weird that way.
>>
>> But the last thing I want to do is run afoul of Certicom (or
>> cause others to run afoul of them).
>>
>> So, advice?  Should I press ahead?
> <KS>
> 	Same reason for me to get involved as well ! Interest in crypto as
> well as a good reason to work on Smalltalk.
>
> 	Just as a POV, it is Ok to develop ECC. It gives us a leg up for our
> cryptography portfolio. Naturally we would need to figure out the  
> legal
> issues before making it part of the system; but we would need to do  
> that
> anyway. So your efforts (if you choose to do so ;o)) will not be  
> wasted.
>
> 	I have been looking at the SHA code towards developing the SHA512
> and would welcome you help. We can learn collaboratively ! I was  
> waiting for
> the holidays to be over before starting in earnest.
> </KS>
>
> Cheers & happy holidays (Just came back from a grueling Black Friday
> shopping (er .. carrying bags for the better half ...)
> <k/>
>
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