From 80ffa3cd7b64407acb0992d9600682d425774630 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Strogonoff Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2018 17:51:48 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] content: 0.10.0 release/intro post --- _posts/2018-08-20-rnp-010-released.adoc | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 54 insertions(+) create mode 100644 _posts/2018-08-20-rnp-010-released.adoc diff --git a/_posts/2018-08-20-rnp-010-released.adoc b/_posts/2018-08-20-rnp-010-released.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000..208e2d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2018-08-20-rnp-010-released.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: "RNP 0.10.0 has been released" +date: 2018-08-20 20:37:38 +0700 +categories: release +excerpt: >- + After a year since it stemmed off NetPGP, the OpenPGP library + shares little code in common with its ancestor. + Enjoy new features, better performance, and better + compatibility with other implementations. +--- + +:cpp: C++ + +Meet RNP, an RFC4880-compliant OpenPGP library written in {cpp}. + +RNP was born at Hong Kong-based Ribose and is maintained under its initiative. +Originally stemmed from NetPGP, it has little in common with its ancestor now +after a year of development—after a clean-up of legacy code, +corrected compatibility issues with GnuPG and other implementations, +improved performance and added cutting-edge features. + +Feel free to use RNP in your software! + + +=== Getting started with RNP + +If you’re deploying OpenPGP in a Ruby-based application, +there are bindings +(see RubyDoc footnote:[https://www.rubydoc.info/github/riboseinc/ruby-rnp/]). + +Since it’s written in C++, you can call RNP from Objective-C code, +or with ctypes under Python. + +RNP’s binaries `rnp` and `rnpkeys` can be installed via Homebrew or YUM, +with Debian packages coming next. +You can use the binaries similarly to GnuPG’s command-line tools +(see supported flags and use cases in RNP’s README footnote:[https://github.com/riboseinc/rnp/blob/master/README.md#usage]). + +=== Why RNP? + +* It’s a proper library, in contrast to GnuPG/GPGME footnote:[See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5180217[GnuPG is not a library (2013)]]. Ruby bindings are available with Python & Go bindings in the works, and you can use it wherever you can call C++ code. +* It’s implemented in C++ and offers constant memory footprint with large amounts of data. +* It offers comprehensive cipher support, including (uniquely) the SM algorithm family—a desirable feature if you deploy cryptography in mainland Chinese market. +* Its development is active (with the help of Ribose) and focused on adding cutting-edge features. + +=== Which algorithms does RNP support? + +The following ciphers, encryption modes and hash functions are supported: + +* Symmetric: IDEA, Triple DES, CAST5, Blowfish, AES-128, AES-192, AES-256, Twofish, Camellia-128, Camellia-192, Camellia-256, SM4 +* Symmetric encryption modes: CFB, AEAD-EAX, AEAD-OCB +* Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, SHA-224, SM3 +* Asymmetric: RSA, ElGamal, DSA, so-called DSA2 (i.e. DSA with keys larger then 1024 bits), ECDSA/ECDH (with some subset of curves which later on will be expanded), EdDSA, SM2. From 96b5610ce54e209aaa4ffe7aa5fe19a28cc1ef29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Strogonoff Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 18:25:11 +0900 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] content: Fix adoc header levels in the intro post --- _posts/2018-08-20-rnp-010-released.adoc | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/_posts/2018-08-20-rnp-010-released.adoc b/_posts/2018-08-20-rnp-010-released.adoc index 208e2d6..c44fc0f 100644 --- a/_posts/2018-08-20-rnp-010-released.adoc +++ b/_posts/2018-08-20-rnp-010-released.adoc @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ improved performance and added cutting-edge features. Feel free to use RNP in your software! -=== Getting started with RNP +== Getting started with RNP If you’re deploying OpenPGP in a Ruby-based application, there are bindings @@ -37,14 +37,14 @@ with Debian packages coming next. You can use the binaries similarly to GnuPG’s command-line tools (see supported flags and use cases in RNP’s README footnote:[https://github.com/riboseinc/rnp/blob/master/README.md#usage]). -=== Why RNP? +== Why RNP? * It’s a proper library, in contrast to GnuPG/GPGME footnote:[See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5180217[GnuPG is not a library (2013)]]. Ruby bindings are available with Python & Go bindings in the works, and you can use it wherever you can call C++ code. * It’s implemented in C++ and offers constant memory footprint with large amounts of data. * It offers comprehensive cipher support, including (uniquely) the SM algorithm family—a desirable feature if you deploy cryptography in mainland Chinese market. * Its development is active (with the help of Ribose) and focused on adding cutting-edge features. -=== Which algorithms does RNP support? +== Which algorithms does RNP support? The following ciphers, encryption modes and hash functions are supported: