[openssl-dev] About Chinese crypto-algorithms

[Dmitry Belyavsky]

Hello Robin,

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 3:44 PM, Salz, Rich <rsalz at akamai.com> wrote:

> (I subscribed you to openssl-dev; I hope it works.)
>
> ISO standards are “pay to play.”  That is, any member organization can get
> something as an ISO standard with not much effort. :)
>
> >> "I strongly recommend that if anyone works on this, they do it as an
> externally-provided ENGINE, like GOST. "
> >    Again, I'm sorry I have not a clear notion about the difference
> between build-in approach, and certainly we will take this if necessary.
>
> >> "We may also not have the resources to tackle something that would
> otherwise be of interest (we have a back catalog of nice-to-have
> cryptography waiting for a rainy day)"
> >    We certainly respect policy within community and be willing to
> participate in this if possible in all aspects.
>
> You will have to learn how to write an ENGINE.  It is possible; Dmitry did
> it for GOST (look in the mailing list archives, https://mta.openssl.org,
> for some details; also maybe the Git log.  Also maybe he'll reply to this
> post :)  Richard Levitte has started a blog series on writing an ENGINE,
> see https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/categories/engine-corner/


Sure. I'll be glad to assist.


>
> We want to make it easier to add new crypto via ENGINES.  Each time
> someone does it, we learn more about what's needed, the documentation gets
> (a little) better, and so on.
>
>
The best solution will be providing a skeleton engine (with a skeleton
Makefile example).


-- 
SY, Dmitry Belyavsky
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