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Ryan Naraine, Emil Protalinski and Dancho Danchev

Google releases open-source crypto toolkit

By | August 11, 2008, 10:15pm PDT

Summary: Google’s security team has released an open-source cryptographic toolkit aimed at making it easier and safer for developers to use cryptography in their applications. The toolkit, called KeyCzar, was originally developed by Steve Weis (Google) and Arkajit Dey (MIT) and is available under an Apache 2.0 license. From Google’s announcement: Keyczar is a cryptographic toolkit that [...]

Google releases open-source crypto toolkit Google’s security team has released an open-source cryptographic toolkit aimed at making it easier and safer for developers to use cryptography in their applications.

The toolkit, called KeyCzar, was originally developed by Steve Weis (Google) and Arkajit Dey (MIT) and is available under an Apache 2.0 license.

From Google’s announcement:

Keyczar is a cryptographic toolkit that supports encryption and authentication for both symmetric and public-key algorithms. It addresses some of the aforementioned issues by choosing safe defaults, tagging outputs with key version information, and providing a simple application programming interface. Keyczar’s key versioning system makes it easy to rotate and revoke keys, without worrying about backward compatibility or making any changes to source code.

[ SEE: Google’s anti-malware team comes out of the shadows ]

Some features of KeyCzar include:

  • A simple API
  • Key rotation and versioning
  • Safe default algorithms, modes, and key lengths
  • Automated generation initialization vectors and ciphertext signatures
  • Java and Python implementations (C++ coming soon)
  • International support in Java (Python coming soon)

Google’s security team previously released two other open-source utilities — a fuzzer called Flayer and Ratproxy, a passive Web application security audit tool.

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Ryan Naraine is a journalist and social media enthusiast specializing in Internet and computer security issues.

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Ryan Naraine

The most important disclosure is of my employment with Kaspersky Lab as a member of the global research and analysis team. Kaspersky Lab is a global company specializing in anti-malware and secure content management technologies. I do not own stocks or other investments in any technology company.

Biography

Ryan Naraine

Ryan Naraine is a journalist and social media enthusiast specializing in Internet and computer security issues. He is currently security evangelist at Kaspersky Lab, an anti-malware company with operations around the globe. He is taking a leadership role in developing the company's online community initiative around secure content management technologies.

Prior to joining Kaspersky Lab, Ryan was Editor-at-Large/Security at eWEEK, leading the magazine's and Web site's coverage of Internet and computer security issues and managing the popular SecurityWatch blog, covering the daily threats, vulnerabilities and IT security technologies. He also covered IT security, hacker attacks and secure content management topics for Jupiter Media's internetnetnews.com.

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