Botan Crypto and TLS for D

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 18/02/2015 5:01 p.m., Etienne Cimon wrote:
> On 2015-02-17 20:54, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>> On 18/02/2015 10:00 a.m., Etienne wrote:
>>> I'd like to announce the first release of Botan, which implements all
>>> features of v1.11.10 in the C++ library.
>>>
>>> I gave special attention to properly translating it to correct D code.
>>>
>>> It only runs with DMD master for now, only tested on Linux x86 or
>>> x86_64, and it uses a custom allocator library called memutils which
>>> must be placed in ../
>>>
>>> I'd also want to underline that Alexander Bothe from Mono-D put some
>>> special attention to making sure the IDE runs smoothely with Botan.
>>>
>>> All tests are passing at the time of this writing (which is thousands of
>>> tests for all algorithms, incl x509, pubkeys, tls and so on).
>>>
>>> I'll let the wiki/api docs/code talk for me, I'm off to writing an TLS
>>> driver for vibe.d now
>>>
>>> Have fun!
>>
>> I'm quite excited by this.
>> I do hope however that we get an ssh library now. Maybe git + mercurial
>> + svn as well.
>> We could do so much with that!
>
>
> It looks like this library (using Botan C++) could simply be translated
> to D code:
>
> https://github.com/cdesjardins/ne7ssh
>
> The only problem I see is that it's licensed QPL. However, the
> maintainer is missing and I think the library is simple enough to use it
> as a guideline/reference (along with other RFCs and libraries) and
> re-write an ssh library from scratch to get something new and original
> out of it and possibly use a more open license

I saw that, I was worried about the license as well.
I'll ping Craig. Maybe there is still time for somebody to take it on 
for GSOC?