On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 04:33:20PM +0200, Peter Bex wrote:
> I just mailed Jann Schaumann about the Google `Summer of Code' contest.
> I would like to try my hand at the implementation of a BSD privacy guard,
> but I'm afraid this project would be a bit too big to do in the short
> timespan of the contest.  Also, I don't really have knowledge on
> cryptography yet.  Are the algorithms difficult to implement?

No knowledge about cryptography is certainly a problem. I'd advise making
yourself familiar with OpenSSL first, it already implements all the
algorithms (missing perhaps the certificate formats). The problem is not
so much in getting the algorithms working, but getting them right.

Joerg