[noise] Announcing Noise.NET

[Trevor Perrin]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 5:00 PM, Nemanja Mijailovic
<metalnem at mijailovic.net> wrote:
>
> I'm happy to announce the .NET Standard 2.0 implementation of the Noise
> protocol framework. It's cross-platform (.NET Core 2.0 runs on Linux,
> Mac OS, and Windows), libsodium-based library.


Hi Nemanja,

Welcome!  That is a nice surprise, looks like a very well-done library.

I've linked it on the Wiki.  Our standard procedure is to keep things
in "wiki quarantine" for a few weeks and encourage people to review
and send you advice.  If everything still looks good in early-mid
April we'll list it on the main website.


> Coming soon:
>
> - API documentation webpage
> - BLAKE2s hash function
> - Fallback protocols
> - NoiseSocket and NLS
> - Curve448 (probably)


BLAKE2s would be great, makes it WireGuard-compatible for example; and
should be easy with libsodium.

I'm also very eager for implementer feedback on NoiseSocket/NLS.  The
latest draft specs are linked from the Wiki.

These are rough documents, but they're at a point where implementer
feedback is going to be what drives improvements, finds edge cases,
fixes text ambiguities, etc.  Right now Gerardo, Alexey, and I are
discussing, but fairly soon there should be some opportunities to test
interop, so I'd love to get more implementers in the mix.

Trevor