[Ml-yokadi] New feature : encryption

[Sébastien Renard]

Le lundi 17 août 2009 22:12:29, Aurélien Gâteau a écrit :
> Sébastien Renard wrote:
> > Le samedi 15 août 2009 15:40:27, Sébastien Renard a écrit :
> >> I'll try o migrate yokadi cryptutils to NCrypt.
> >
> > That's done in the ncrypt branch. It works well.
> >
> > Some comments :
> > - ncrypt documentation is very poor (only sample, no description) and
> > there's no online doc.
> > - mailing list is... almost empty. Very very few email. Hope it is still
> > maintained.
>
> Huhu, I know very little about cryptography in general and Python
> modules in particular, so it's probably worth looking around what's
> available. I found NCrypt through "apt-cache search python openssl",
> maybe there is a better implementation.

I'll have another look on what's available. We will have as many yokadi branch 
as tried implementation :-)

> > - NCrypt encryption mechanism need an initial vector *and* a key to
> > achieve proper encryption. I think that asking two things to user is way
> > too much (GnuPG required only one). So I put a fix initial vector... Hope
> > that's not too weak.
>
> I hope so as well, but I agree asking for an initial vector would be
> annoying.

NCrypt author does not agree with our optimistic approach : 
http://tachyon.in/pipermail/ncrypt-users/2006-August/000009.html

Grrr.

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Sébastien