[Cryptech Tech] Good read on libraries and APIs for cryptographic functions

Rob Austein sra at hactrn.net
Fri Jun 20 17:12:01 UTC 2014


At Tue, 17 Jun 2014 19:58:36 +0200, Joachim Strömbergson wrote:
> 
> As an intro to the discussions and work on defining APIs between the
> lower layer of the Cryptech cake, this report on NaCl might be worth
> reading:
> 
> http://cr.yp.to/highspeed/coolnacl-20120725.pdf

"To summarize, all of these cryptographic choices are quite
 conservative. We do not expect any of them to be broken until someone
 succeeds in building a large quantum computer; before that happens we
 will extend NaCl to support post-quantum cryptography."


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