Ask for mentor - Improve Bcrypt

[Kaiyi Zhang]

Hi  Marek:
According to Lang's suggestion, I think DH and DSS is a better choice.
Thanks for your generous. DH and DSS is strange to me. I need to to learn
more about this. I accept it 's difficult for me to absorb your proposal .
it's better for me to get this step by step. As i said in my gsoc
proposal I'm interested in this. joining the wine  project is the best for
me.

thank you.


2013/5/10 Marek Chmiel <kcmark at gmail.com>

> Hey Kaiyi Zhang,
>
> Welcome to wine dev! If you decide to move forward with this(DH and DSS), I
> wish to share with you all that I have finished up to now. Using a few
> things from RSAENH I have all the related algorithms functioning. Also
> using LibTomCrypt I have partially implemented DSA but you would have to
> choose on the PRNG that DSA will use. My plan was to use RC4 but have not
> gotten to test that. I have yet to touch anything with DH_EPHEM (Ephemeral)
> or DH_SF (Store and Forward).  If you have any questions shoot them to Juan
> or me (Juan is the better choice). Best of luck!
>
> --
> Marek
>
> >Hi Kaiyi Zhang,
> >
> >(or is Zhang Kaiyi?)
> >
> >I think there's a little misconception in your proposal. Bcrypt the
> >algorithm is not the same as the BCrypt functions in crypt32. I believe
> >that Microsoft redesigned their CryptoAPI and more or less renamed their
> >functions BCrypt*. I don't believe they have any relationship to the
> Bcrypt
> >algorithm by Niels Provos and David Mazieres. I don't know how many
> >applications depend on the Bcrypt* functions in newer crypt32
> >implementations, vs. the the Crypt* functions that are present in all
> >versions of crypt32.
> >
> >If you want feedback on Wine crypto stuff, I'm probably the best to help
> >you with that. Sorry if I've been a little absent, I'm pretty busy between
> >my family and my day job of late.
> >
> >I have another idea for you that I think is tractable, and perhaps up your
> >alley. The DH and DSS algorithms are still unimplemented in Wine. We
> >already have tests for them, so I think it should be possible to
> contribute
> >implementations. See the tests in dlls/dssenh/tests.
> >
> >I hope that helps.
> >--Juan
>
>
>
>
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