[Lazarus] DCPcrypt: a package looking for a new maintainer

[Daniel Franzini]

I volunteer to maintain the DPCrypt package.

What should I do?

On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 3:00 PM Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus <
lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2021, Bart via lazarus wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > The DCPcrypt package (see:
> > https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/DCPcrypt) does not have a
> > maintainer anymore.
> > Graeme unfortunately had to give up (as he pointed out: not by choice,
> > but by circumstances).
> >
> > Is there anybody out there who is interested (and feels capable) in
> > maintaining that package?
>
> I think it is a mature codebase, maybe it should be incorporated in FPC.
>
> I am currently implementing crypto routines in FPC for use in JWT tokens,
> so maybe using DPCrypt is a better approach than re-implementing all
> routines, if we can change the license.
>
> Michael.
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Daniel

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