[squeak-dev] Re: [Vm-dev] Cryptography in the main image and Plugins
build for theVMs
Rob Withers
reefedjib at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 9 02:00:57 UTC 2010
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From: "Steve Wart" <steve at wart.ca>
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 7:50 PM
To: "Squeak Virtual Machine Development Discussion"
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Cc: "Squeak Crypto" <cryptography at lists.squeakfoundation.org>; "Squeak Dev"
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Subject: Re: [Vm-dev] Cryptography in the main image and Plugins build for
theVMs
>
> Given that cryptography still faces export restrictions, would this
> cause problems for OSS distributions that want to include Squeak?
>
I am not familiar with which pieces of Cryptography are export restricted
and which are not. According to the Java SDK Crypto docs
(http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17476_01/javase/1.4.2/docs/guide/security/CryptoSpec.html#Architecture)
DSA, MD5 and SHA-1 are at least distributable. This obviously reduces the
attractiveness of including Crypto in the image, were we to have to split
the package into exportable and non-exportable packages.
> Also I'm not sure that people who want to minimize their image size
> would benefit. Why can't Cryptography be easily loaded by people who
> need it?
People may not know where it resides. It is not a part of the trunk. It is
in a SqueakSource repository.
Thanks,
Rob
>
> Steve
>
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Rob Withers <reefedjib at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I would like to propose that Cryptography be included as part of the
>> image,
>> by default. As it stands now it is in the Cryptography repository, which
>> most don't seem to know about or there are one-off copies that are
>> developed
>> separately. David Shaffer has been stewarding a reintegration of these
>> forks and ensuring the tests pass. Everyone should be able to take
>> advantage of the algorithms provided by the Cryptography package.
>>
>> Along the same lines, it would be a great help for the vm providers to
>> include the CryptographyPlugins when they build a new vm. I believe
>> there
>> are 3 plugins and they really ought to be build internally, since they
>> are
>> unchanging.
>>
>> I would like to hear what others think of the possibility of making this
>> change.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Rob
>>
>>
>>
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