[Cryptography Team] DES status?

[Hans-Martin Mosner]

Hi folks,
I noticed that Cryptography-DES has no non-primitive version. Since the 
primitive is not in my current VM, I can't test it.
Another issue is that interpreterProxy shows up as Undeclared when I 
load the DES stuff, which probably means that the primitive won't 
compile cleanly - but I have not looked further into this.
Would you mind if I modify the DES code to fall back to the 
non-primitive implementation which I wrote for OpenPGP?
I would have to adapt to the slightly different API anyway (my code used 
8-byte Integers as keys and data blocks, while the Cryptography code 
uses 8-byte ByteArrays which make more sense).

BTW, I've made a first cut creating separate packages 
(Crpytography-Core, Cryptography-ASN1, ...) which seems to work 
reasonably well. Once I've successfully loaded all of them into a base 
image, I'll publish them to our repository. I don't know how MC manages 
prerequisites yet, so anyone loading these would have to take care of 
the load order by himself.
 
Cheers,
Hans-Martin