[Suggestion] JuliaCrypto

[ghost]

@staticfloat Some time ago I created the org JuliaCrypto, with the purpose to serve Krypto.jl and the further intent to hold all major cryptographic packages in Julia - as JuliaMath, BioJulia, etc do for their field of science. This here is a suggestion to transfer SHA.jl into the organisation. As the current owner and lead developer, you would, of course, retain the position :) The merge/transfer would further simplify the creation of a bigger Hash.jl, containing the current SHA.jl, if that would happen somewhere in the future.

Of course, such a transfer could cause some problems, as all dependent repos would have to update the position of the package (I look at you METADATA.jl).

If you agree with this proposal, I would be very glad to see you reply to this thread, as well if you disagree. :-)

[staticfloat]

Heh, I like the idea of a JuliaCrypto! I especially like the icon you made up for it. :)

For now, I think I would like to keep SHA.jl separate and let the JuliaCrypt organization grow itself first. Once we have a good stable set of contributors to/admins in the organization, we can talk about moving SHA.jl over to there as well and creating a Hashes.jl. I would love to see a set of performant, native-julia implementations of hashing functions.