Projects
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Feel free to take one of these on if it interests you. Before starting
out on something, send an email to the dev list or open a discussion
ticket on GitHub to make sure you're on the right track.

Request a new feature by opening a pull request to update this file.

Ciphers, Hashes, PBKDF
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* Bitsliced AES or Camellia
* Compressed tables for AES
* AES using vector permutes for NEON or AltiVec
* Camellia using AES-NI
* Serpent using AVX2 or SSSE3/pshufb
* ChaCha20 using AVX2, NEON
* XSalsa20-Poly1305 AEAD compatible with NaCl
* ARIA block cipher (RFCs 5794 and 6209)
* ASCON 1.2 (CAESAR)
* NORX-64 3.0 (CAESAR)
* scrypt PBKDF
* Argon2 PBKDF (draft-irtf-cfrg-argon2)
* bcrypt PBKDF
* Skein-MAC
* Extend Cascade_Cipher to support arbitrary number of ciphers

Public Key Crypto, Math
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* XMSS (draft-irtf-cfrg-xmss-hash-based-signatures)
* SPHINCS-256
* EdDSA (GH #283)
* Ed448-Goldilocks
* FHMQV
* Support mixed hashes and non-empty param strings in OAEP
* wNAF ECC point multiply
* Recover ECDSA public key from signature/message pair (GH #664)
* Fast new implementations/algorithms for ECC point operations,
  Montgomery multiplication, multi-exponentiation, ...
* Some PK operations, especially RSA, have extensive computations per
  operation setup but many of the computed values depend only on the
  key and could be shared across operation objects.

External Providers, Hardware Support
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* Access to system certificate stores (Windows, OS X)
* Extend OpenSSL provider (DH, HMAC, CMAC, GCM)
* /dev/crypto provider (ciphers, hashes)
* Windows CryptoAPI provider (ciphers, hashes, RSA)
* Apple CommonCrypto
* ARMv8-A crypto extensions (AES, SHA-2)
* POWER8 crypto extensions (AES, SHA-2)
* Better TPM support: NVRAM, PCR measurements, sealing

TLS
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* Make DTLS support optional at build time
* Make TLS v1.0 and v1.1 optional at build time
* Make finite field DH optional at build time
* NEWHOPE (CECPQ1) key exchange (GH #613)
* TLS OCSP stapling (RFC 6066)
* Authentication using TOFU (sqlite3 storage)
* Certificate pinning (using TACK?)
* TLS supplemental authorization data (RFC 4680, RFC 5878)
* OpenPGP authentication (RFC 5081)
* DTLS-SCTP (RFC 6083)
* Perspectives (http://perspectives-project.org/)
* Support for server key stored in TPM or PKCS #11

PKIX
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* Test suite for validation of 'real world' cert chains (GH #611)
* Improve output of X509_Certificate::to_string
  This is a free-form string for human consumption so the only constraints
  are being informative and concise. (GH #656)
* X.509 policy constraints
* OCSP responder logic
* X.509 attribute certificates (RFC 5755)

New Protocols / Formats
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* NaCl compatible cryptobox functions
* Off-The-Record v3 https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/
* Some useful subset of OpenPGP
  - Subset #1: symmetrically encrypted files

    Not aiming to process arbitrary OpenPGP, but rather produce
    something that happens to be readable by `gpg` and is relatively
    simple to process for decryption. Require a 128-bit block cipher
    and MDC packet.

  - Subset #2: Process OpenPGP public keys
  - Subset #3: Verification of OpenPGP signatures

Compat Headers
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* Write an OpenSSL-compatible TLS API stub so existing applications
  can be converted more easily. Would require some networking code
  since the OpenSSL API handles both crypto and IO. Use Asio, since it
  is expected to be the base of future C++ standard network library.

FFI (Python, OCaml)
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* Expose certificates
* Expose TLS
* Write a CLI or HTTPS client in Python

Library Infrastructure
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* Guarded integer type to prevent overflow bugs
* Add logging callbacks
* Add latency tracing framework

Build/Test
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* Code signing for Windows installers
* Test runner python script that captures backtraces and other
  debug info during CI

CLI
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* Rewrite `tls_client` and `tls_server` to use asio. See `tls_proxy`
  for an example
* `encrypt` / `decrypt` tools providing password and/or public key
  based file encryption
* Make help output more helpful
* More microbenchmarks in `speed`: modular exponentiation, ECC point
  multiplication, other BigInt operations
* Compute cycles/byte estimates for benchmark output

Documentation
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* TPM (no docs)
* PKCS #11 (no docs)
* X.509 certs, path validation
* Specific docs covering one major topic (RSA, ECDSA, AES/GCM, ...)
* Some howto style docs (setting up CA, ...)