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by caf 2865 days ago
There seems to be broad agreement for the need for a set of software crypto implementations with a straightforward synchronous, static dispatching API. The discussions seem to be mainly around code organisation and plumbing that API as an underlying implementation used by the dynamic dispatch asynchronous crypto API.
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Right. So basically v2 of the Zinc patchset will address the nice points brought up on the list, and I think things should proceed nicely.
Jason: Any word on the name yet? My concern is the confusion with the existing my minizinc and flatzinc project, a standard constraint modeling language, which has nothing to do with crypto. There should be some better name for the Linux crypto lib.
So what? Name clashes happen all the time. Before seeing this comment, I had never heard of minizinc and flatzinc. In fact, if you had asked me if Zinc clashes with anything, I'd have thought of Tinc (which is a VPN product, so roughly in the same space).