[Cryptography Team] RFC: Consolidating the Cryptography library for a general release

[Philippe Marschall]

2007/4/21, Robert Withers <reefedjib at yahoo.com>:
> Hi Philippe,
>
> I hadn't realized that Configurations had been fixed in 3.9.  They
> were broken badly in 3.8.

They don't work out of the box in 3.9, you're right about that. I
don't know what the situation on 3.8.1 is.

> This would certainly be a solution to load
> the various Crypto packages, and it would have the advantage of
> allowing people to load a smaller subset for constrained devices.
> I'll take you up on you offer to build a Configuration file for us.
> Is it possible to nest one configuration inside of another?

No.

> If I
> build a SSL configuration, I would want to load the Cryptography
> configuration with it.  O is this what Universes will deliver to us.
> Slightly confused.

Universes supports dependencies afaik.

> Here is my in-order list of packages for the Cryptography Configuration:
>
> Cryptography-Core
> Cryptography-ARC2
> Cryptography-RC4
> Cryptography-MD4
> Cryptography-MD5
> Cryptography-SHA1
> Cryptography-SHA256
> Cryptography-DES
> Cryptography-DSA
> Cryptography-RSA
> Cryptography-ElGamal
> Cryptography-Rijndael
> Cryptography-RandomAndPrime
> Cryptography-ASN1
> Cryptography-X509
> Cryptography-PKCS12
> Cryptography-Tests

http://mc.lukas-renggli.ch/spielverderber/Cryptography-pmm.1.mcm
(I don't have the commit right for the cryptography project on SqS)

Cheers
Philippe

> cheers,
> Rob
>
> On Apr 21, 2007, at 8:55 AM, Philippe Marschall wrote:
>
> > 2007/4/21, Robert Withers <reefedjib at yahoo.com>:
> >> This is a request for comment on consolidating the Cryptography
> >> library for a general release.  What I mean by that is consolidating
> >> to a single Monticello package, that would allow users to one-click
> >> load the basic library.  Currently there is an implicit load order
> >> which most users don't know.  We still don't have Configuration
> >> support so that isn't a solution right now.
> >
> > What's the problem there? If you can load it with Monticello it should
> > be no problem to have a Configuration Map for it. I could even build
> > you one. Just tell me what you want in and in which order.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Philippe
> >
> >> If this idea is supported, I suggest we look at all the packages and
> >> decide which are "in", then generate the Cryptography package with
> >> these packages loaded.
> >>
> >> Those packages that are not included, like Cryptography-SMIME for
> >> instance, should really be renamed to not have the Cryptography-
> >> prefix.  The old versions can be deleted to keep things clean.
> >>
> >> Those packages that are selected, and are determined to be complete,
> >> could be deleted as independent packages and we would just rely on
> >> them being in the consolidated package and develop there when
> >> needed.  After this first step is completed, we could reassign the
> >> classes to a more compact categorization.
> >>
> >> Below is a list of the packages.  Please vote and if your vote is
> >> yes, what are your package recommendations as described below.
> >>
> >> Rob
> >>
> >> Packages:
> >> Those with a '*' in front are my suggestions as to which is to be
> >> included in Cryptography.  Those with a '!' in front are my
> >> suggestions as to which should be renamed away from Cryptography-.
> >> Those with a '+++' are candidates for deletion, since they have been
> >> superseded.
> >>
> >> * Cryptography-ARC2
> >> * Cryptography-ASN1
> >> * Cryptography-Core
> >> * Cryptography-DES
> >> * Cryptography-DSA
> >> * Cryptography-ElGamal
> >> * Cryptography-MD4
> >> * Cryptography-MD5
> >> * Cryptography-PKCS12
> >> * Cryptography-RC4
> >> * Cryptography-RSA
> >> * Cryptography-RandomAndPrime
> >> * Cryptography-Rijndael
> >> * Cryptography-SHA1
> >> * Cryptography-SHA256
> >> ! Cryptography-SMIME
> >> ! Cryptography-SSL
> >> * Cryptography-Tests
> >> * Cryptography-X509
> >> +++Fortuna  (this exists in RandomAndPrime)
> >> ! Cryptography-MSCerts
> >> +++Cryptography-TLS (this is superseded by SSL)
> >> OpenPGP
> >>
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