[xmlsec] Thoughts on a new mscng backend

[Dmitry Belyavsky]

No, there is no GOST CNG-based backend.

On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 7:59 PM, Aleksey Sanin <aleksey at aleksey.com> wrote:

> Thank you!
>
> Aleksey
>
> On 5/7/18 12:23 AM, Dmitry Belyavsky wrote:
> > I'll ask whether there is any CNG-based GOST implementation.
> >
> > On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 5:08 AM, Aleksey Sanin <aleksey at aleksey.com
> > <mailto:aleksey at aleksey.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Thanks for all the code you've wrote!
> >
> >     I think the only area missing is GOST algorithms support. It
> >     requires special configs/dlls on Windows so I don't know if
> >     it is even available for MSCNG. May be someone on the list
> >     has direct knowledge and can chime in?
> >
> >     I was planning to ask you what would be the right time to do
> >     an xmlsec release. Sounds like in a couple weeks is the right
> >     timeline. I think it would be great to have others play with
> >     mscng to find out any issues. But otherwise, it looks great!
> >
> >     Aleksey
> >
> >     On 5/4/18 8:33 AM, Miklos Vajna wrote:
> >     > Hi,
> >     >
> >     > On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 03:24:51PM -0800, Aleksey Sanin
> >     <aleksey at aleksey.com <mailto:aleksey at aleksey.com>> wrote:
> >     >> That sounds like a great plan! I would recommend to use the
> >     >> skeleton folder to start.
> >     >
> >     > Thanks for all the reviews, current master looks reasonable to me
> >     when I
> >     > compare 'make check' output of the mscrypto and mscng backends:
> >     >
> >     > - 0 tests pass only on mscrypto
> >     > - 126 tests pass on both mscrypto and mscng
> >     > - 3 tests pass only on mscng (ecdsa signing with sha1/256/512)
> >     >
> >     > I wonder what else is missing so it could be claimed that the mscng
> >     > backend is more or less a drop-in replacement for the mscrypto one.
> >     > There are two things I can think of:
> >     >
> >     > - mscrypto supports reading your OS-level certificates and use that
> >     >   during e.g. signing.
> >     >
> >     > - There are a few functions which are part of the mscrypto public
> API
> >     >   (e.g. xmlSecMSCryptoX509StoreAdoptKeyStore()) and there is no
> mscng
> >     >   equivalent yet. Those are probably interesting as e.g.
> LibreOffice
> >     >   uses those functions.
> >     >
> >     > I plan to get to these two in the next few weeks. But is there
> >     anything
> >     > else larger missing?
> >     >
> >     > Thanks,
> >     >
> >     > Miklos
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >
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> > SY, Dmitry Belyavsky
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