cryptlib public beta released

Peter Gutmann (pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz)
Mon, 13 Jul 1998 05:04:19 (NZST)

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I've just released a public beta of my encryption library,
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/cryptlib/. As well as the usual
encryption options it's always had, it now supports certificate handling
(X.509v3, PKIX, SET, and every imaginable variation and mutation of the
above), attribute certificates, CRL's, and other bits and pieces. So far the
betas haven't been publicised much, but I thought I'd make this one public
because I'd like feedback from users of various OS's which I don't have easy
access to (for those who haven't seen it before, it supports a wide variety of
algorithms, many implemented in assembly language for extra speed, digital
signatures, key exchange, key generation, management, and a key database
interface, etc etc etc, and comes with a fairly comprehensive 180-page users
manual).
 
You can get the beta as
ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/crypt/cryptlib/beta/beta0709.zip, the manual from the
same location as manual.pdf, and precompiled binaries for Windows as
beta_bin.zip (although the real point of the beta is that you play with the
source code rather than just grabbing some binaries). Please don't mirror this,
the site's probably somewhat slow but I'd rather not have a pre-release beta
appearing all over the place.

What I'm particularly interested in is getting a wider variety of key database
interfaces going. cryptlib can use any type of SQL database as a key
database, but since I can't port it to every database engine in existence
(more because of the fact that I don't have access to them all than because of
the difficulty involved, it's fairly simple to do), in many cases the code is
only a sketch of what's needed. What's currently partially supported is BSQL,
MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Raima Velocis, and Solid, I'd be interested in having
these finished up. Fully supported (the last time I checked) were only mSQL
(Unix) and generic ODBC (Windows).
 
This version includes a new bignum library, the asm bignum support for some
Unix platforms (the Alpha and Irix spring to mind) is currently a bit broken,
so you'll have to compile without asm or wait for the next release. In
addition the keygen code is replaced by stubs for the same reason, if you
really need keys you can get around this for now by using the ability to read
PGP private key files.
 
Peter.

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