I happen to have some time (and appitite) for this. Maybe Jim can mentor me
(and whoever else is interested in joining) to tread in this water a little
bit. But we wouldn't be able to go too far without the help of
experienced Firebird/Interbase developers.

BTW, I've just seen "incremental development" in one of these posts - which
I think is a wonderful idea - at least to start moving towards the right
direction. We can start with minimal coding to get it up and running and
then list when and how the current solution can be used to achieve data
security. Then we can move on further - like enhance the interface, key
management, etc...

Regards,

Sijun Kang

2010/11/5 Jim Starkey <jstarkey@...>

> As it turns out, ironically, I do have some engine experience, albeit
> dated, and have also had quite of bit of experience with various flavors
> of crypto. I'm not in a position to do any coding, but I'd be happy to
> mentor anyone interested in developing a coherent crypto architecture.
>
>
> On 11/5/2010 11:40 AM, Roman Rokytskyy wrote:
> >> Roman, I disagree. I think thought should be given to the requirements
> >> before settling on an interface. Really bad interfaces require haste...
> > In general I agree, but...
> >
> > ...the issue is that encryption is some kind of low-prio for the
> > project, considering the limited resources we have. None of the sponsors
> > need this so far, their prios are in completely different area.
> >
> > However, there are people that want to play with this beast, so why not
> > to enable them this?
> >
> > In general, I see open-source as more in the line with darvin's theory
> > than creations theory... The Java plugin went through many iterations (I
> > think 4), before getting into the main tree. And there will be more
> > iterations needed, when it is released, since more and more people will
> > use it...
> >
> > Same thing is with encryption - people knowing the engine internals are
> > not best security specialists, those willing to play with the security
> > do not know the engine internals... Some time must pass before the
> > common denominator is found.
> >
> > IMHO, for sure.
> >
> > Roman
> >
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