Re: [Monotone-devel] netsync transport encryption?

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 08:46:48AM +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> In message <address@hidden> on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:07:32 -0500, Timothy 
> Brownawell <address@hidden> said:
> 
> tbrownaw> > So I think built in encryption would be a good thing.
> tbrownaw> 
> tbrownaw> Yes, not everyone will (easily) be able to use those
> tbrownaw> alternatives. But AIUI it'd also be a horrible pain to
> tbrownaw> implement, so instead people are working on things that are
> tbrownaw> more requested and/or easier to do. If someone happened
> tbrownaw> across an easy way to build in encryption, I'm sure we'd
> tbrownaw> start using it pretty readily.
> 
> Doesn't Botan have facilities to make such things easy?  I was under
> the impression that it has...

There is an SSL library built on top of Botan, but it isn't really
done.

Botan also has the pieces needed to implement ad-hoc stream encryption
pretty easily (as long as you don't care about rekeying and stuff
like that), but really we have too much ad-hoc cryptography as it
is...

-- Nathaniel

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