[Mono-dev] CryptAPI

[Jair Cazarin]

I forgot the link: http://cryptapi.sourceforge.net/index.html

Thank you.

On 5/16/06, Sebastien Pouliot <sebastien.pouliot at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Jair,
>
> On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 18:44 -0500, Jair Cazarin wrote:
> > CryptAPI is a C# library which has the purpose to provide backward
> > compatibility with the unix's C crypt() function for encrypting a
> > string using a salt. This salt will indicate the type of algorithm
> > that will be used to encrypt such string. Since neither mono nor
> > the .NET framework provide this compatibility the main purpose of
> > CryptAPI is to give programmers the proper library so that, if needed,
> > they can integrate it to their development. We have integrated almost
> > all the algorithms used in different Linux/Unix distributions and have
> > ported the following encryption algorithms based on salt:
> >
> >       * LM (No salt needed).
> >       * NTLM (No salt needed).
> >       * DES.
> >       * Extended DES.
> >       * FreeBSD's Short MD5.
> >       * FreeBSD's Long MD5.
> >       * Short Blowfish.
> >       * Long Blowfish.
> > The library itself was programmed by porting code from unmanaged code
> > to managed code.
>
> It's nice to know it's now available in managed code. IIRC someone asked
> for this not too long ago (either on an email or on IRC).
>
> > As of today, CryptAPI provides the following:
> >
> >       * Encryption of string using proper salt.
> >       * Encrypted password recognition based on salt.
> >       * Service provider to facilitate developer usage.
> >       * Portable and modifiable managed code in C#.
>
> Congratulations! This is a great deal of work (and testing too). Do you
> have a link to your code ?
>
> > There exists the possibility  of integrating this to the cryptography
> > namespace of mono? If yes, how can be do that.
>
> Not much. For several reasons we try(*) not to add new features not
> available in the .NET framework directly into Mono (we have more than
> enough to keep busy for a while ;-)
>
> (*) unless the features are required by Mono itself
>
> OTOH there are a lot of way and places to promote your library,
> including many places inside mono-project wiki (like the security FAQ).
> --
> Sebastien Pouliot  <sebastien at ximian.com>
> Blog: http://pages.infinit.net/ctech/
>
>


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Jair Cazarin Villanueva
http://slipware.org
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