[Cryptography Team] [ENH] AES

[Ron Teitelbaum]

Welcome Tim!  It's nice to have you here.  I'm sure your experience will be
very useful.  Maybe you can help us write a grant to fund our lab expenses!

Ron

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cryptography-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> [mailto:cryptography-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of
> Cerebus
> Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 6:07 PM
> To: cryptography at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: [Cryptography Team] [ENH] AES
> 
> On 11/24/06, cerebus2 at gmail.com <cerebus2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > It struck me as convenient to have an AES class.  All I did was subclass
> > Rijndael and override new with the relevant block size and key size.  I
> > have no idea if this is sufficient, but I suppose it's a start.  Now I
> > need to figure out how to write tests.
> 
> Just to let everyone know, I *really* don't have any idea what I'm doing.
> :)
> 
> Background:  I don't write code in my day job, and it's been many
> years since I've seriously coded at all beyond scripting for my own
> convenience.  Currently I'm working for an FFRDC supporting a
> government PKI, so I've been steeped more in the policy end and riding
> herd on vendors (like Cisco, though I don't think I've ever met
> Krishna before) for the last 10 years, with a dash of sysadmin and
> testing thrown into the mix.
> 
> My knowledge of crypto doesn't extend far beyond using the primitives
> to construct protocols & systems.  I don't get the math, I may never
> get the math, but in the end it may not matter.
> 
> My interest in Squeak runs back a bunch of years, but I never did more
> than toy with it.  What's changed recently was I got a chance to sit
> in on a demonstration by a couple of guys from MIT Lincoln Labs who
> are doing interesting things with Boneh/Waters/Gentry broadcast
> encryption on a contract.  Their system requires ECC and I thought it
> would be interesting to model their prototype, which led me back to
> Squeak, which led me to this project.
> 
> -- Tim
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