Google has released keyCzar, a cryptographic toolkit that supports encryption and authentication for both symmetric and public-key algorithms.
Cryptography is a common problem area for web programmers. keyCzar aims to help alleviate some of the issues by supplying safe defaults, tagging versions, and a simple interface.
[via Zero Day]
Hi William. Keyczar is just a software library, not a service. Your keys live wherever you want them to. Google is not holding keys in escrow or anything like.
Cheers.
Posted at 1:34 pm on Aug 12th, 2008 by Steve Weis
Now THAT is service! Second post is by one of the authors! Care to comment on the peer review process to date, Steve?
Posted at 2:54 pm on Aug 12th, 2008 by Matt
Hi Matt. It has been internally reviewed, but the public peer review process is just starting. There has already been some good feedback. I anticipate we’ll make significant changes before the 1.0 release based on open source contributors.
(PS – Why does this comment system convert everything to lower case?)
Posted at 7:46 pm on Aug 12th, 2008 by Steve Weis
I think it’s running the clbuttic comment system.
Posted at 12:57 am on Aug 13th, 2008 by Fate
And how is this a hack?
This looks like a cross between an advertisement and a press-release, barely warmed over.
hackaday is looking more & more like slashdot, but without the +5 funny
Posted at 1:01 am on Aug 13th, 2008 by Andrew
Andrew, Mod +5 Insightful
Posted at 4:54 pm on Aug 13th, 2008 by Jay Eff
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Let Google keep the keys to the castle, direct traffic to the castle, AND charge to send it there?
Im in!
Posted at 11:23 am on Aug 12th, 2008 by William Kinirons