Conceal 2.0 Roadmap

Conceal 2.0

Includes breaking the dependency of code on android and several feature improvements.

Testing improvements

• Make testing agnostic of android
• Create a test harness which can run on a JVM
• Continuous integration tests on github
• Add the NIST test vectors for GCM and CBC
• Fix benchmarks to run on ART

Features

• Improve authentication in the streaming API.
• Support for other modes like AES-CBC
• Support for 128 bit as well as 256 bit keys
• Add a key management API similar to Crypto('PROJECT') to manage keys across multiple projects
• Other language implementations all link to the same DSO
  • iOS
  • PHP
  • Python (AES-GCM acceleration)
• Deterministic construction for nonce generation
• PBKDF support
• Better exception messages for decryptFinal
• Wipe buffers on finalization of encryption.
• Improve perf further

Modernize library

• C++ library, use folly, better exception handling

Documentation

• Sample apps as examples
• More detailed documentation about use of API and all its caveats.