Re: DNSCurve and the next djbdns release

Jos Backus wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:08:15AM -0700, Faried Nawaz wrote:
>> It looks like there's some work here:

>> http://github.com/agl/dnscurve/tree

...

> Although testing DNSCurve seems like a worthwhile endeavour I'm worried that a
> Python version will be too slow for busy sites, and that updating djbdns,
> although easy, won't happen in the foreseeable future.

If you're referring to the above URL, it looks like they've conflated 3 projects
(at least) into one - a C implementation of dnscurve (and as Faried said,
missing a library called nacl), some Python bindings to the same library (but
not used by the dnscurve implementation), and what appears to be a Python
implementation of nacl (also not used by ...). 

Apart from the heavy number crunching, Python would be fine for a dns resolver
as it would be a mostly I/O bound process.

> Perhaps this is a clever ploy by Dan to get somebody to produce a patch for
> djbdns we can then all use to test DNSCurve in the real world. ;-)

I haven't managed to find the above mentioned missing library, which impacts
its being compiled somewhat.  :-)


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