The reason I intended to write you is a request for the modernization of Cryptography assistance. In reading about TLS 1.3 [1], I read somewhere in its rfc [2], a discussion of negotiable Diffie-Hellman variants, using Elliptical algorithms. I do not believe we have such DH algorithms impl&tested, do we? There may be more specialized algorithms in use with TLS .13, as well. I have not looked deeply. As well, there is SHA512. The last item I have noticed is that the Blowfish cipher is not subclassing the hierarchy of Ciphers and so is not fully integrated into the Cryptography framework. I am requesting that those few brilliant cryptologists who have helped to implement all of our Algorithms, take a look at new algorithms/port Blowfish and help to impl&test them, in an effort to modernize.

I truly feel that our Cryptography repository, aside from all the crap I have published, is filled with a wonderful tested implementation of many useful Cryptographic algorithms. I am hoping thaose few of you may consider this request graciously and dust off your chops. And dive in, so I may be able to implement TLS 1.3, for us. In particular, I would refer you to my blog post linked above titled PAPAS.

Also, in browsing Signal's code [3], there seems to be some interesting algorithms implemented there, including an ECPublicKey and ECPrivateKey, and an HKDF. I am considering implementing Moxie Marlinspike's double-rachet in ParrotTalk. I have no idea whether these would be useful, it seems that they may be.

I am fully engaged with PAPAS and would love to actually be able to use this new stuff without having to implement them myself. I appreciate you and all that you have done. Cryptography is baby's milk.

Thoughts of the great internet war over the right to privacy during data-in-motion encryption