Re: DNSCurve implementation

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Brian <[email protected]> wrote:
> However 3 and 4 are items that we could
> perhaps work on together. We use python quite extensively and would
> have interest in creating portable DNS libraries for the community.

Great!

So there's already at least some open source prior art here, so it's
"only" a matter of polishing stuff and pulling it together in a usable
form.

E.g., in http://github.com/mdempsky/dnscurve, there are a few things of use:

  1. The "slownacl" library: a pure Python reimplementation of the
NaCl Python API.  I think this is usable as is, but could probably
benefit from being split off as a standalone package.

  2. The NaCl Python patch: this adds Python bindings to the NaCl
library so Python can use the optimized NaCl routines.  For a
reference implementation, this isn't really important, but if someone
is feeling masochistic and is familiar with the Python/C APIs, it
would be awesome if they could update this to apply to the latest NaCl
release.

  3. The "tools" directory: just some random DNSCurve-related Python code.

There's also the code that João Paulo R Vita and his team wrote for
FISL10: http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/~joaopaulo/dnscurve/  (Written in
just a few days under time crunch for a competition and with no prior
DNS/DNSCurve experience, so not too much documentation. ;-))