Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 07:44:33 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com> To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: new libmp imported Message-ID: <20010730074433.E57400@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20010729224116.BCE563E31@bazooka.unixfreak.org>; from dima@unixfreak.org on Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 03:41:11PM -0700 References: <20010729151946.B96357@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010729224116.BCE563E31@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
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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
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