When you want a cryptography library for #guile, you might be pushed to use guile-#gcrypt. I advise you to use #gnutls instead: since guile use gnutls for its web stack, it might save you a dependency, while adding lots of cool features (e.g. parsing PEM keys, a requirement for ActivityPub interoperability with Mastodon).

For instance, here is how #goblins could use it:

https://gitlab.com/spritely/guile-goblins/-/merge_requests/181

If you are afraid to review my gnutls-guile merge requests because there is too much change, you can start with this one:

https://gitlab.com/gnutls/guile/-/merge_requests/8

#gnutls #guile #crypto #cryptography #guix

Dear gnutls guilers,

I still have a few merge requests waiting for your comments:

https://gitlab.com/gnutls/guile/-/merge_requests

#guile #gnutls #scheme #crypto #cryptography #guix

Dear gnutls guilers,

I still have a few merge requests waiting for your comments:

https://gitlab.com/gnutls/guile/-/merge_requests

#guile #gnutls #scheme #crypto #cryptography

Hello! This is a gentle reminder that I’m still looking for feedback on my GnuTLS - Guile merge requests :

https://gitlab.com/gnutls/guile/-/merge_requests

#gnutls #guile #crypto #cryptography

J’ai vu passer ceci :

https://thephd.dev/to-save-c-we-must-save-abi-fixing-c-function-abi

C’est la première fois que j’entends ce son de cloche vis-à-vis de realloc, comme un échec de standardisation.

Mais pour avoir croisé la route de GnuTLS récemment, la solution indiquée me semble un peu tirée par les cheveux non ? Il suffit de garder les vieilles fonctions et de rajouter un numéro de la honte derrière, comme nom_de_fonction2 (). J’ai loupé un truc ?

#c #abi #gcc #realloc #gnutls

Dear gnutls guilers, I have a few more merge requests for you to examine!

https://gitlab.com/gnutls/guile/-/merge_requests

#guile #gnutls #crypto #cryptography

Hi! Here is my merge request to bind the symmetric encryption functions from #gnutls to #guile.

What do you think?

https://gitlab.com/gnutls/guile/-/merge_requests/7

That’s it, I have an initial merge request for HMAC in the #guile binding of #gnutls.

https://gitlab.com/gnutls/guile/-/merge_requests/5

Can someone there run the pipeline?

I think I start to understand how #guile bindings for #gnutls work. Now I just have to paste moar bindings.

I like how it uses #gnulib to do the maintainer things.

I’m not sure I can go further with my #gnutls bindings in pure scheme for #guile. The fact that gnutls expects me to pack arrays of structs, pass enumeration types as output parameters, and that enumerations may be extended in the future, makes me reconsider whether I can really do everything in scheme.

Finally, the most reasonable thing to do would be to further develop the existing C bindings.

So, I managed to get the start of a #guile binding to #gnutls. Compare it to the official gnutls binding:
- the official one does not have the functions I want;
- the official one is written in C, not in Scheme;
- the official one uses smobs and (as far as I understand) GC finalizers, mine uses explicit memory management with dynamic-wind.

Now, the next task is to replace guile-gcrypt by incorporating the missing functions, and enjoy the wider API.

It's #GNUSpotlight time! Fifteen new GNU releases in the last month: https://u.fsf.org/3ue #bash #emacs #gnugamma #gnutls #gnusasl and more -- hurrah! Thanks again, @bandali0 @bandali and big thanks to all the devs and other contributors!

Well, I'm back at attempting to get a #Heroku buildpack working for #Guile #Artanis (well, technically, getting #GnuTLS working with the Guile and Artanis buildpacks I already got working so you can use HTTPS with Artanis).

And, while I'm here, might as well update my Guile buildpack to 3.0; looks like it's working, so far…

Is there a way to install #GnuTLS with #Guile bindings via #homebrew?

If anyone wants to take a crack and help me out, I'm trying to build #GnuTLS with #Guile bindings in a #Heroku buildpack.

The project uses this buildpack I made to install Guile: https://github.com/WammKD/heroku-buildpack-guile-scheme.

That works fine and then I have this other one to try and build GnuTLS: https://github.com/WammKD/heroku-buildpack-gnutls-with-guile-bindings.

Unfortunately, that one's throwing an error of "g++: fatal error: -fuse-linker-plugin, but liblto_plugin.so not found" and I know too little to figure out why.