[Vm-dev] Cryptography in the main image and Plugins build for theVMs

[Rob Withers]

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From: "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 10:26 PM
To: "Squeak Virtual Machine Development Discussion" 
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Subject: Re: [Vm-dev] Cryptography in the main image and Plugins build for 
theVMs

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> On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 05:07:29AM -0400, Rob Withers wrote:
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>> 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.
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> Hi Rob,
>
> With respect to the plugins (and I know this was discussed in earlier
> emails) can you please provide a link to the SqueakSource repository for
> the three plugins? We can add this to the VMMaker configuration map and
> to ConfigurationOfVMMaker so they will be easily loaded into VM 
> development
> images.
>
> Assuming no legal issues, I would expect that the plugins can be included
> in future VM builds without difficulty (at the discretion of the platform
> maintainers of course). BTW, don't worry about internal versus external,
> that's a packaging issue, and if there is any concern about legal issues
> (real or imagined) it will probably be best to make them external modules
> for the benefit of folks who may be concerned about such things.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave

Hi Dave,

Thanks, this would be great!  The repository containing the Crypto plugins 
is:

MCHttpRepository
	location: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/Cryptography'
	user: ''
	password: ''

The package is CryptographyPlugins, newly created.

There are 4 plugins: DESPlugin, DSAPlugin, MD5Plugin, and  SHA256Plugin. 
Under the relaxation in export restrictions in 2000, all of these are 
exportable.

Thanks,
Rob

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