From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 30 7:44:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [206.40.252.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4893C37B401 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 07:44:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.4/8.11.1) id f6UEiYi57729; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 07:44:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 07:44:33 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Dima Dorfman Cc: Kris Kennaway , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: new libmp imported Message-ID: <20010730074433.E57400@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: current@freebsd.org References: <20010729151946.B96357@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010729224116.BCE563E31@bazooka.unixfreak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010729224116.BCE563E31@bazooka.unixfreak.org>; from dima@unixfreak.org on Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 03:41:11PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jul 29, 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > installed. This would involve a repo copy of crypto/openssl/crypto/bn > to contrib/openssl-bn or something, and I'd keep the two in sync with > future vendor imports. You're likely to get people saying "repo bloat". And it does seem a little wrong to have two copies in the tree like that. Just what programs are affected by this issue (ie, which use libmp)? On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 03:41:11PM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote: > > > libmp that I haven't been able to test is the Kerberized telnet, but > > > since it's the same code as the other telnets, there shouldn't be any > > > problems. > > > > When Mark and I talked about this a few months ago, we concluded that > > we'd have to first break out the (self-contained) bignum lib [...] > > BIGNUM isn't self-contained. It needs the ERR_* subsystem, as well as > (I think) the BIO subsystem. ... > can get it to work, so much the better. That said, right now > everything that uses libmp could be considered `crypto' code, anyway, I don't see anything wrong with that. At this point the `crypto' code should be seen as virtually required. Originally was was "optional" because of USA export laws. That is not an issue today. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message