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Hi all,

This week I focused on the benchmark that will run at start-up to
figure out what provider is fastest for each algorithm. There were
already some benchmarks written for Message Digests, HMAC, and AES/CTR
comparing SunJCE to whatever the default is. I moved all of them to a
single class PreferredAlgorithms. They now also compare against
BouncyCastle. PreferredAlgorithms will keep track of the currently
used algorithms and the preferred providers for all algorithms. I have
also started creating a Signatures class and a CryptBucket class. I'm
still trying to figure out if the Signature class should actually
store sigs, or just sign and verify them and let them be stored
somewhere else. I'm leaning towards storing, let me know if you have
any suggestions. I will be storing Buckets in CryptBucket. The code
can be found on my github [1].

I finished reading Applied Cryptography. It was very helpful in
getting a better understanding of stream ciphers, cipher modes, and MACs.

I have also been doing more research on what algorithms to use. I
found an good looking java implementation of ed25519(EdDSA)[2]. This
is a very fast ec signing algorithm using curve 25519. This
implementation is based on ref10 which hasn't been audited yet, but
hopefully will be the end of the summer (it's pretty new, and there
appearers to be a lot of interest in it). The backup is to just use
ECDSA. I would like to move from HMAC and use Poly1305-AES as our MAC.
It is many times faster and pretty much as secure as AES. This is
already in BC. For symmetric encryption I'd like to use AEAD
ChaCha20-Poly1305 but it is only included in the current BC beta and
is a TLS cipher. I'm not sure yet if that would work though. If it
doesn't I'll probably use our current AEAD AES-OCB. Let me know if you
have any thoughts on these choices.

This next week I'm going to look into the best way to fix the bug with
using BC 1.50 instead of 1.49 [3]. I will also be working more on the
API classes.

- -Charles

[1] https://github.com/unixninja92/fred-staging/tree/GSoC2014-crypto-api
[2] https://github.com/str4d/ed25519-java
[3]
https://github.com/waldheinz/fred-staging/commit/6f3bd1b328a7ad0c4a92aea018a5d5d6405cba08#commitcomment-6331876
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