Re: Adding support for nationwide (Russian, GOST) cryptography

Paul Wolneykien <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.crypto
Organization BaseALT
Message-ID <[email protected]>
В Thu, 13 Feb 2020 13:45:38 +0300
Dmitry Baryshkov <[email protected]> пишет:

> Hello,
> 
> For the past several years I have been working on adding support for
> GOST crypto to several OSS crypto libraries (libgcrypt, GnuTLS,
> LibreSSL, Nettle).
> 
> One of my next targets is NSS support. My primary goal is to get GOST
> S/MIME (See RFC 4490) support working in Evolution and Thunderbird.
> TLS 1.3 (draft-smyshlyaev-tls13-gost-suites) and optionally TLS 1.2
> (draft-smyshlyaev-tls12-gost-suites) are definitely a longer term
> optional goals which will require more coordination with Firefox (and
> other projects).
> 
> For now I'd like to understand if these patches (if implemented with
> proper code quality and test coverage) have a chance at all of landing
> at NSS repo?

  Hi! I've already have some conversation on the subject:

https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg13003.html


> May I extend main soft token library with necessary algorithms, or I'd
> better create another PKCS#11 soft token library to be used instead
> (just for GOST for now)?

  I've extended the main (freebl) part with most of the GOST code in
the separate subdirectory.
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