[omaha] KeyCzar - who knew?

[Chad Homan]

Nice find!!!!

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T <jeffh at dundeemt.com>wrote:

> Hey I just came across this, http://www.keyczar.org/
> "Keyczar is an open source cryptographic toolkit designed to make it
> easier and safer for developers to use cryptography in their
> applications. Keyczar supports authentication and encryption with both
> symmetric and asymmetric keys. Some features of Keyczar include:
>
>    * A simple API
>    * Key rotation and versioning
>    * Safe default algorithms, modes, and key lengths
>    * Automated generation of initialization vectors and ciphertext
> signatures
>    * Java and Python implementations (C++ coming soon)
>    * International support in Java (Python coming soon)
> "
> The Google security team project to make good security easy for Python
> and Java.  I'm just reading through the docs now but if it can deliver
> on it's goals  -- nice.  Doing encryption well is hard -- even using
> good tools you can make mistakes.
>
> If you knew about this or have used it/played etc, I'd like to hear
> what you have to say.
>
> -Jeff
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Chad, CISSP