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

[Jussi Lahtinen]

Select "Project" menu item in the IDE and from there "Publish" to publish
in the farm.

Jussi

On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 1:20 PM Carlos Kabronsete <carloskabronsete at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I totally agree with your point of view.
>
> I am interested in contributing. This contribution does not have to be a
> component, it can be a farm project as long as gb.openssl does not have the
> appropriate functionalities.
>
> I can try to develop gb.openssl but I have the problem that I have never
> developed components in C for gambas and I have never developed in C with
> the openssl libraries. Both will give me problems and I need some time.
>
> I feel capable of doing it.
>
> Would you like to put those digest, pki, and encryption projects on the
> gambas farm? How to do that?
>
> Thanks for your time
>
> El mar, 31 ago 2021 a las 22:10, Tobias Boege via User (<
> user at lists.gambas-basic.org>) escribió:
>
>> 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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