Link list

Networking

• NAT-Travesal & P2P libraries:
• WebRTC
• PJNATH - Open Source ICE, STUN, and TURN Library
• LibJingle

Funding Bodies

• NLnet Foundation
• Shuttleworth Foundation

Articles

• ECB looks into virtual currencies
• How DigiCash Blew Everything
  

Crypto

• Cryptographic Right Answers
• The Web Cryptography API from the W3C Web Cryptography Working Group.
• Javascript crypto libraries:
  
  • Take a regular LLVM crypto library of your choice, e.g. a C library. Transcribe it to the asm.js subset of javascript e.g. using Emscripten . The result runs in any JS engine, and runs superfast in any JS engine with asm suport.
    E.g. here someone has transcribed the C crypto library NaCl to asm.js.
    Read this article for more.
    
  • SJCL, the "Stanford Javascript Crypto Library" [AES, SHA256, HMAC, random] (there is an ECC branch)
  • JSBN, Tom Wu's BigInt library [BigInt, RSA, ECC, random, SHA1]
  • CryptoJS [SHA 1-3 & other hashes, HMAC, AES & other ciphers with various modes & paddings, PBKDF2]
  • Dave Shapiro's BigInt and RSA libraries [BigInt, RSA], probably quite fast
  • shop-js, John M. Hanna's "JavaScript Shopping & Crypto" is designed to work with server-side python code []
  • jsSHA by Brian Turek [SHA*]
  • Forge is a Javascript implementation of TLS. It uses Wu's BigInt lib [SHA256 & more, RSA & more, RSA-PSS (!), TLS]
  • Leemon Baird's BigInt library [BigInt, prime finding & testing]
  • Yet another BigInt library by Masanao Izumo [BigInt]
  • An (outdated) overview over BigInt JavaScript libraries
  • Herbert Hanewinkel's OpenPGP Message Encryption [SHA1, AES (enc only), RSA (js-shop), random, PGP encoding & key handling]
  • OpenPGP.js is a promising project that merges many of the above. [SHA* (jsSHA), AES (Hanewinkel) & others, CFB (Hanewinkel), BigInt (Wu), RSA (GPG4B) & others - also depends on SJCL].
  • What paddings are provided? Other cipher modes?
  • They maintain an interesting list of other JS crypto projects
  • (GPG4Browsers - merged into OpenPGP.js)
  • pidCrypt is yet another merger of various of the above (SVN)
  • clipperz a js library with aes, sha and fortuna

• RfC 3447 defines PKCS #1 (v2.1), in particular RSA-PSS
• MEGA.co.nz uses heavy JS crypto. They have an interesting response to their critics.

Other

• The Finance Innovation Lab
• Ripple.com (announcement, source). Note that the company OpenCoin Inc behind ripple.com is unrelated to opencoin.org! A critique.