Google Summer of Code 2018 - Progress report - week 2

[Harsh Khatore <khatore.harsh.github%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hello mentors and team, 

This week I was a bit slow on things. Will move fast in the upcoming week. 

Things done this week:

1. Understand the work flow and I/O of netpgp and netpgpverify. 

2. Understood working of other open source implementation like 'signify' from OpenBSD. 

3. To be discussed with mentors:

Check the usability of open source implementation of ed25519 and Chacha20. 

Modification required to add these algorithms into NetBSD or pkgsrc source tree. 

Goals for next week:

After discussion with the mentors, would like to move forward with the implementation and adaption of atleast one of the algorithms. 

If not, would do some more research on the previous goals. 

Thanks, 

Harsh Khatore 

On Mon 21 May, 2018, 10:02 AM Alistair Crooks, <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost> wrote:

Thanks for the update, Harsh.

Best,

Alistair

On 20 May 2018 at 19:26, Harsh Khatore <khatore.harsh.github%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

Hello Alistair, David, and the tech-crypto team,

It's been a week from the start of Google Summer of Code. It was a pretty exciting week, and I hope this remains the same until the end of the program.

This email is to brief about my progress with the project:

Project title: Modern cryptographic algorithms to netpgp, netpgpverify

Mentors: Alistair Crooks & David Maxwell

Goals accomplished:

1. Instaling NetBSD 7.1.2 and current( 8.99.16 ) in a virtual machine. (multiple times with different configurations)

2. Installing sources from CVS, for both src and pkgsrc.

3. System build( Kernel build ) using build.sh

4. Set up independent Github repository for netpgp and netpgpverify. Links at the bottom.

5. Compile and build netpgp. Did not do for netpgpverify.

6. Read RFC 4880, understood the workflow of netpgp & netpgpverify( not completely though).

Planned goals for next week:

1. Understand the changes needed to allow the addition of ed25518 and salsa20 in netpgp and netpgpverify

2. Research for places to get these implementations with proper accepted license

3. Workaround with netpgp to understanding it's functioning with different inputs and their output.

4. Understanding the test setup of netpgp and netpgpverify

Github repository links -

netpgp - https://github.com/HarshKhatore/netpgp/tree/initial

netpgpverify - https://github.com/HarshKhatore/netpgpverify/tree/initial

Thanks for the opportunity,

Harsh Khatore