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Last year, a group of Google engineers emitted an “unofficial project,” a cryptographic library called Tink. Now, the Chocolate Factory has decided the software's good enough to carry its name. One of Tink's developers, infosec engineer Thai Duong, made the library “official” in this blog post announcing version 1.2.0. Duong …

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  1. onefang

    I'll have to have a bit of a Tinker with it.

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  2. Chris Hills

    Great, but...

    Why not simply submit pull requests fixing some of the issues in BoringSSL, another case of NIH?

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    1. Brewster's Angle Grinder Silver badge
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      Re: Great, but...

      BoringSSL is also Google, so it's definitely not NIH.

      As their page says,

      We don't recommend that third parties depend upon [BoringSSL]. Doing so is likely to be frustrating because there are no guarantees of API or ABI stability.

      I'm guessing Tink attempts to provide a saner, stabler, API/ABI.

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      1. Chris Hills
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        Re: Great, but...

        In a company as large as Google, NIH can equeally apply to other teams as well as other companies.

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    2. Charlie Clark Silver badge
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      Re: Great, but...

      I think BoringSSL inherits some design problems from OpenSSL and can't necessarily be changed as desired.

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    3. Arthur the cat Silver badge
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      Re: Great, but...

      Why not simply submit pull requests fixing some of the issues in BoringSSL

      From the Github README for the C++ version:

      Tink depends on Abseil, Protocol Buffers, and BoringSSL

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Tink?

    So, does the name mean There Is No Krypto, or There Is No Kabal, or, with the references to nonces as well, are they just trying to troll and ensnare tech-illiterate SJWs who come from a travelling folk background?

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