On Wednesday, 18 February 2015 at 04:17:16 UTC, Rikki Cattermole
wrote:
On 18/02/2015 5:01 p.m., Etienne Cimon wrote:
On 2015-02-17 20:54, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
On 18/02/2015 10:00 a.m., Etienne wrote:
I'd like to announce the first release of Botan, which
implements all
features of v1.11.10 in the C++ library.
I gave special attention to properly translating it to
correct D code.
It only runs with DMD master for now, only tested on Linux
x86 or
x86_64, and it uses a custom allocator library called
memutils which
must be placed in ../
I'd also want to underline that Alexander Bothe from Mono-D
put some
special attention to making sure the IDE runs smoothely with
Botan.
All tests are passing at the time of this writing (which is
thousands of
tests for all algorithms, incl x509, pubkeys, tls and so on).
I'll let the wiki/api docs/code talk for me, I'm off to
writing an TLS
driver for vibe.d now
Have fun!
I'm quite excited by this.
I do hope however that we get an ssh library now. Maybe git +
mercurial
+ svn as well.
We could do so much with that!
It looks like this library (using Botan C++) could simply be
translated
to D code:
https://github.com/cdesjardins/ne7ssh
The only problem I see is that it's licensed QPL. However, the
maintainer is missing and I think the library is simple enough
to use it
as a guideline/reference (along with other RFCs and libraries)
and
re-write an ssh library from scratch to get something new and
original
out of it and possibly use a more open license
I saw that, I was worried about the license as well.
I'll ping Craig. Maybe there is still time for somebody to take
it on for GSOC?
Just wanted to chime in and say that I intended to take over
development of ne7ssh, but after significant work I found that it
had some serious problems that made it pretty useless as a
general ssh client library. It was more geared toward automated
testing (i.e. send a command to a remote host and wait for the
response). As such I decided to use it as a rapid prototype for
cppssh. Which I intend to use as a general purpose ssh2 client
library. Anyways, the library still needs to be hardened, and I
am not really going to start using it for anything until botan
1.11 goes stable. But it works fairly well so far, and it is gpl.
https://github.com/cdesjardins/cppssh
