Re: [MirageOS-devel] ask for outreachy program

[Hannes Mehnert <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi Chenchen,

On 03/25/2015 23:52, ChenchenZhao wrote:
> Hi: My name is Chenchen Zhao. Iâm currently a first year student
> in University of Waterloo, Math Faculty. I really really want to 
> participate in Xen Outreachy Program and make some contributions
> to open source and I think the project âCommand line utilities" 
> fascinates me a lot. I have learned Python and Scheme in
> school,but just some basic functions.I was wondering if I can
> participate in it and make some contributions from now on. Would it
> possible to give me to some suggestions to start and tell me what
> should I learn and do now? Thank you,and I look forward to hearing
> from you.

That sounds great.  In which area would you like to develop utilities
(networking? security? ..?).
I appreciate to have command-line utilities as openssl replacements
(both TLS [s_client/s_server], but also cryptographic primitives
[dgst/..]), also a netcat/socat would be nice to have (with both
terminal and also structured output mode (json?)).

You could start by installing OCaml and opam, and furthermore some of
the MirageOS libraries.  If you then install and look through cmdliner
(http://erratique.ch/software/cmdliner/doc/Cmdliner) and see if you
can implement some basic library -- maybe a md5sum, which takes a
string or a file and outputs its MD5 digest as a start (MD5 is for
example available as part of the nocrypto library
https://github.com/mirleft/ocaml-nocrypto/blob/master/src/nocrypto.mli#L126)?


Don't hesitate to ask further questions on this list,

hannes
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