Re: Bug#655187: ITP: nacl -- High-speed software library for network communication

[Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+debian@mega-nerd.com>]

Guillem Jover wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 04:49:02 +0000, Sergiusz Pawlowicz wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Sergiusz Pawlowicz <debian@pawlowicz.name>
> > 
> > * Package name    : nacl
> >   Version         : 20110221
> >   Upstream Author : Daniel J. Bernstein <djb@cr.yp.to>
> > * URL             : http://nacl.cace-project.eu/
> > * License         : Public domain
> >   Programming Lang: C, C++,
> >   Description     : High-speed software library for network communication
> > 
> > NaCl (pronounced "salt") is a new easy-to-use high-speed software
> > library for network communication, encryption, decryption, signatures,
> > etc. NaCl's goal is to provide all of the core operations needed to
> > build higher-level cryptographic tools. 
> 
> Hmm, I can see possible namespace collisions with Chromium's NaCl
> <http://www.chromium.org/nativeclient>, they even seem to use the
> same pronounciation...

Thats true, but if you read tha paper on djb's NaCl, he claims to have
started the project before the release of other one.

Erik
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