On Apr 21, 2007, at 10:26 AM, Philippe Marschall wrote:
2007/4/21, Robert Withers reefedjib@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.
I'm sorry but I don't think it is suitable to deploy Cryptography using a mechanism that does not work out of the box. It has been two cycles (3.8 and 3.9) where this problem has existed without being repaired. We are trying to arrive at a solution to allow users to load Cryptography out of the box, so they can start using applications that are built on top of Cryptography, like SMIME and SSL. I think consolidating the library makes perfect sense, and if someone needs a slimmed down version we can create one for them. I'm sorry if a little frustration is coming through, but Monticello is a fantastic product that I use everyday, but we have tried to notify people of the problem with Configurations and nothing was done. I would love to use it if it worked out of the box in 3.9. Maybe a fix could be added to 3.10.
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.
Bummer.
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.
Maybe this is now the solution, to add all packages to a Universe. I wonder if Universes can be nested.
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)
I tried but I couldn't load it. Where is the patch for Configurations?
thanks and cheers, Rob
Cheers Philippe
cheers, Rob
On Apr 21, 2007, at 8:55 AM, Philippe Marschall wrote:
2007/4/21, Robert Withers reefedjib@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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