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<div>Here are some info from the Botan developer:</div>
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<div>> > I will be starting with version 2 of SoftHSM in the beginning of</div>
<div>> > next year. My question is regarding your view on GOST support in</div>
<div>> > Botan. Is there any possibility to have this within 5 months?</div>
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<div>> This definitely seems possible. The GOST block cipher and hash</div>
<div>> function are already implemented in 1.8, so the remaining piece is the</div>
<div>> signature algorithm. There is an i-d that partially specifies it</div>
<div>> (draft-dolmatov-cryptocom-gost34102001-05.txt) though it is missing</div>
<div>> the method of key generation; presumably I can reverse engineer that</div>
<div>> portion from the GOST 34.10 code in OpenSSL, which was also written by</div>
<div>> Cryptocom IIRC.</div>
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<div>> I'm not certain if it will be viable to introduce 34.10-2001 support</div>
<div>> in the existing 1.8 stable version; for instance if adding support for</div>
<div>> it requires changing something in a way that would break the ABI. So</div>
<div>> it may be the case that it would only be available in the 1.9</div>
<div>> development releases. On the other hand it may be reasonable to</div>
<div>> release a new stable tree as 1.10 around April-May of next year</div>
<div>> anyway.</div>
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<div>> -Jack</div>
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