Re:Announcing ClearCrypt: a new transport encryption library
by bascule on Monday May 05, 2014 @03:16AM
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We aim to make it an explicit goal, rather than implicit. Wherein other projects this is a "would be nice", in this project it's an absolute necessity for the project's security and therefore success.
Don't waste your time on the link. It's pure vaporware.
Actually vaporware usually usually has a design, but this is more like "write something in rust, but we're not sure yet what (but it sounds good)".
So let's call it "nothingware"
We're discussing contributing guidelines here:
https://github.com/clearcrypt/clearcrypt/pull/2
Initial code PR with a ChaCha20 implementation here:
https://github.com/clearcrypt/clearcrypt/pull/3
[1] https://github.com/clearcrypt/clearcrypt/pull/3#issue-327877...
NaCL already exists and CurveCP is a part of that, why not just add a Rust port? (and a protocol for certificate transport)
Most projects start with this as an implicit goal. Unfortunately they tend to grow out of control as the code base gets larger.