Request for input: crypto

Submitted by ttrenka on Mon, 09/04/2006 - 23:59.

Hey all, While trying to finish up tasks for the upcoming 0.4 release (scheduled for late October), I'm looking ahead to the 0.5 release--in which I'm supposed to implement the majority of dojo.crypto. I don't think that will happen in full, so I'd like to prioritize--and I'd like your help. So... What crypto algorithms would you want to see implemented in Dojo? On my plate right now is the SHA series (different bit depths, up to 256 I think, although I may implement 512 as well), and an implementation of Rjindael. What else would you like to see?

My votes would be for (in

Submitted by Alex Russell (not verified) on Tue, 09/05/2006 - 02:47.

My votes would be for (in order): * SHA 256 * AES * DSA

SHA-1 to SHA-512 and MD5 for

Submitted by andy (not verified) on Tue, 09/05/2006 - 14:47.

SHA-1 to SHA-512 and MD5 for hashing. AES for 2 way.

As mentioned, SHA and AES

Submitted by Chris Snyder (not verified) on Tue, 09/05/2006 - 18:32.

As mentioned, SHA and AES are the biggies. AES should include a CBC block mode. In fact, I don't know why you'd bother with anything else. Blowfish might be a nice alternative for the paranoid. But the real big news would be RSA encryption support. Being able to sign requests, or decrypt AES keys client-side, would be un-freeking-believably cool, and solve real problems out in the wild.

Andy--MD5 is already

Submitted by Tom Trenka (not verified) on Tue, 09/05/2006 - 19:34.

Andy--MD5 is already available :)

Not sure anyone has really

Submitted by ttrenka on Tue, 09/05/2006 - 19:38.

Not sure anyone has really noticed, but Blowfish (with both EBC and CBC modes) is already available in Dojo. RSA would be nice but it requires big integer support, and that ends up being *slow* in JavaScript. But I'll put it on my list.

RSA is the only definite one

Submitted by Anthony Mills (not verified) on Tue, 09/05/2006 - 21:24.

RSA is the only definite one on my list besides SHA and AES. Of course there's the implementation at http://www.ohdave.com/rsa/ to give you a start but I'm sure it could be tweaked for speed and object-orientedness.