[omaha] KeyCzar - who knew?

[Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Chad Homan <choman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nice find!!!!

GU Lectures on security/cryptography -- one of the two main
contributors in the keyczar project
http://saweis.net/crypto.shtml

> 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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