Sean Conner <sean at conman.org> writes:
> It was thus said that the Great Ciprian Dorin Craciun once stated:
>> So I've taken Sean Conner advice and implemented a proof-of-concept
>> client and server (only the protocol, transport and crypto part, not
>> the actual file serving) in Python by replacing TLS with NaCL /
>> `libsodium`.
> 2) As I feared, this requires a more complicated implementation. solderpunk
> wanted a protocol that could be implemented quickly and while TLS might be a
> bad protocol, it at least has the feature of being widely available and
> largly transparent if done correctly (like libtls, part of LibreSSL, does).
> It handles not only the crypo portion, but the framing of data (invisibly to
> the rest of the application). To tell the truth, I don't know the actual
> bytes of the TLS portion of the protcol as that is handled for me.
If we really wanted to go down this route, Noise protocol is more
comparable to TLS than just using NaCL directly; the Python bindings
seem only about as complex to use as the Python TLS bindings. The only
thing is that Noise has libraries for 5 or 6 languages, compared to how
ubiquitous TLS is.
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