[freenet-dev] Expose Crypto Stuff via FCP

[Florent Daignière]

* David ???Bombe??? Roden <bombe at pterodactylus.net> [2007-10-31 09:58:47]:

> From the Frost "freenet" board:
> 
> ----- Anonymous ----- 2007.10.28 - 18:12:54GMT -----
> 
> Is it planned to expose some basic cryptographic functions through FCP
> so that client authors can make use of them?  I'm thinking of things
> such as creating public/private keys, and signing and encrypting data
> with those keys.
> 
> -----
> 
> 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).
> 
> 
> 	Bombe

I don't... Keep in mind that FCP is insecure by design...

NextGen$
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