gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel

2.6.x goals?

Nikos, what is the status of your mpi branch?  Is it ready for me to
review as if we would merge it into master?  Please hold off any merge
until I have reviewed and discussed the changes.

Btw, my goals for 2.5.x is to integrate Nikos' crypto.h stuff, and to
re-indent the code.  As far as I know, there are no other tasks that are
pending, or are there?  Anything major to be included should be made
available on a separate branch for review relatively soon, or it will
have to wait for 2.7.x.

All minor improvements like enhancing self-tests and fixing bugs should
be possible though, but they aren't release goals.  Waiting for
nice-things-to-have like better PKCS#11 integration, GPGME compatibility
etc will delay us, but people should feel free to start working on stuff
like that now anyway, 2.7.x isn't that far away.

Hopefully we can make the 2.5.x release cycle shorter than the last...
It would be nice to have a 2.6.x release candidate ready by August, to
get the crypto.h stuff out.

/Simon

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Daniel Kahn Gillmor | 18 Jun 18:52

Re: 2.6.x goals?

On Wed 2008-06-18 12:07:13 -0400, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> Btw, my goals for 2.5.x is to integrate Nikos' crypto.h stuff, and
> to re-indent the code.  As far as I know, there are no other tasks
> that are pending, or are there?  Anything major to be included
> should be made available on a separate branch for review relatively
> soon, or it will have to wait for 2.7.x.

I have three OpenPGP-related goals i'd like to see met for 2.6:

 * the ability to deal with passphrase-encrypted OpenPGP keys.

 * the ability to verify a specific UserID in an OpenPGP certificate
   without reference to any other UserIDs in the certificate.

 * the ability to create new OpenPGP keys (e.g. with certtool) and to
   add UserIDs and subkeys.

I don't know if these are already part of the MPI rewrite that you
mention: are the details for that documented someplace?

I'd be happy to contribute toward this as well, if i can find the time
and can figure it out.  I don't want to step on any toes, though, and
i don't want to create a lot of extra work if there are larger-scale
rewrites of the relevant sections going on concurrently.  Any thoughts
on how i should approach this?

I'd also be interested in developing the more-compact OpenPGP function
space that was just discussed on this list.  Guidance as to how to do
that cleanly would be appreciated.

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Simon Josefsson | 19 Jun 14:28

Re: 2.6.x goals?

Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg-debian.org <at> fifthhorseman.net> writes:

> On Wed 2008-06-18 12:07:13 -0400, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>
>> Btw, my goals for 2.5.x is to integrate Nikos' crypto.h stuff, and
>> to re-indent the code.  As far as I know, there are no other tasks
>> that are pending, or are there?  Anything major to be included
>> should be made available on a separate branch for review relatively
>> soon, or it will have to wait for 2.7.x.
>
> I have three OpenPGP-related goals i'd like to see met for 2.6:
>
>  * the ability to deal with passphrase-encrypted OpenPGP keys.
>
>  * the ability to verify a specific UserID in an OpenPGP certificate
>    without reference to any other UserIDs in the certificate.
>
>  * the ability to create new OpenPGP keys (e.g. with certtool) and to
>    add UserIDs and subkeys.

Sounds fine to me.

> I don't know if these are already part of the MPI rewrite that you
> mention: are the details for that documented someplace?

Nope, the MPI stuff is the gnutls_with_ext_mpi branch:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnutls.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/gnutls_with_ext_mpi

It allows modular replacement of libgcrypt.

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Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos | 19 Jun 11:14

Re: 2.6.x goals?

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Simon Josefsson <simon <at> josefsson.org> wrote:
> Nikos, what is the status of your mpi branch?  Is it ready for me to
> review as if we would merge it into master?  Please hold off any merge
> until I have reviewed and discussed the changes.

It is complete except for some parts of opencdk.

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Simon Josefsson | 19 Jun 11:26

Re: 2.6.x goals?

"Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos" <n.mavrogiannopoulos <at> gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Simon Josefsson <simon <at> josefsson.org> wrote:
>> Nikos, what is the status of your mpi branch?  Is it ready for me to
>> review as if we would merge it into master?  Please hold off any merge
>> until I have reviewed and discussed the changes.
>
> It is complete except for some parts of opencdk.

Great.  Do you want to run 'git-merge master' in your branch to sync it
up to master, or should I do it?  After that, we can test it and see if
it is ready to merge onto master.

/Simon