[viff-devel] Yet another SFDL parser

[Martin Geisler]

Mikkel Krøigård <mk at cs.au.dk> writes:

> Quoting Martin Geisler <mg at daimi.au.dk>:
>
>> I've just sent 22 patches to the viff-patches list:
>>
>>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cryptography.viff.patches/104
>>
>> They represent yet another attempt at making a SFDL parser. I say
>> "yet another" since Mikkel and Sigurd has been working on one too,
>> but unfortunately that seems to have lost some momentum. Or at
>> least I haven't heard anything about it recently :-)
>
> We haven't lost any momentum on the parser. In fact it has been done
> for quite a while. We have, however, lost momentum on the rest of
> the compiler.

Right, that was sort of what I meant :-)

>> I don't care which parser is used -- I just played around with it
>> to learn more about Pyparsing. However, regardless of the choice,
>> we should discuss who will commit to take the lead on it.
>
> We should have probably talked about that before we made 3 of them.
> I think we did agree on me, but somehow Sigurd and I ended up doing
> more or less the same thing concurrently.

It would be great if you could go forward with the compiler!

In Amsterdam we were asked about how long it would take, and I didn't
have a good answer. Can you try to give a time estimate that we can
tell the FairPlay guys?

-- 
Martin Geisler

VIFF (Virtual Ideal Functionality Framework) brings easy and efficient
SMPC (Secure Multiparty Computation) to Python. See: http://viff.dk/.