[Gambas-user] How to offer a new component to gambas?

[Tobias Boege]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2021, Carlos Kabronsete wrote:
> - * Create complete PKI structures, Root CA, intermediateCA,
> CrlDistributionPoint, Alternativenames, etc.
> - * Manage X509 certificates. Client & Server certificates, ocsp,
> codesigning, timestamp, S/mime.
> - * Manage Pkcs12 certificates.
> - * Manage private keys RSA, DSA, ECDH, ECDSA, X25519, ED449.
> - * SSL/TLS client test.
> - * Timestamps request, generation and verification.
> =================================================
> The second component is a gambas component that encrypts and decrypts files
> or variables on the fly.
> ==================================================
> There is a third component is a gambas component that manage a complete
> message digest.

It sounds to me as if all that functionality should be available from
gb.openssl (especially if you use precisely OpenSSL to implement it).

Now, of course the problem is that gb.openssl is written in C, not in
Gambas, so the barrier for you to contribute to it is higher, and in
its current state gb.openssl does not yet provide even the primitives
which you need to reimplement your components on top of it.

Still, I think gb.openssl would be the right place for all of it.
Especially because your components currently use Exec on the openssl
binary all the time, when in an ideal world they would access the
openssl library directly.

It would be really nice to have someone take over development of
gb.openssl. There are so many things missing, as your components
exemplify (although ciphers _are_ implemented). I don't have time
to do it and probably lack the best-practices knowledge in crypto-
graphy anyway.

Best,
Tobias

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