[freenet-dev] Expose Crypto Stuff via FCP

[Matthew Toseland]

On Wednesday 14 November 2007 00:17, David ‘Bombe’ Roden wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 22:22 +0000, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> 
> > > I think that's a pretty good idea. The node already handles all that
> > > crypto stuff and client applications, plugins, whatever, wouldn't have
> > > to bundle BouncyCastle (or similar libraries).
> > What's your response to the rest of the thread on Frost? They mentioned 
1010, 
> > they mentioned gpg...?
> 
> a) Bugs can be in any API. When using the same crypto stuff as the node
> we can at least be sure that the client crypto is never worse than the
> node crypto.
> 
> b) I'm not quite sure how GPG comes into play here. Sure, it can do all
> the operations I'd need but it's another crypto layer we do not control
> - does it even do its own crypto or does it rely on another layer? And
> how does it integrate into Java? And what about Windows?

The common claim is gpg libraries are available for all platforms and 
languages.
> 
> 
> 	Bombe
> 
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