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Date:      Fri, 27 Oct 2017 19:24:30 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Ben Laurie <ben@links.org>
Cc:        Eric McCorkle <eric@metricspace.net>, "freebsd-security@freebsd.org security" <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Crypto overhaul
Message-ID:  <13959.1509132270@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <CAG5KPzws=jmF2wLeEAz8Lzn7Ugude=0w5neoQjeDjYnGtJpS9Q@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <dc08792a-3215-611c-eb9f-4936a0d621f9@metricspace.net> <CAG5KPzws=jmF2wLeEAz8Lzn7Ugude=0w5neoQjeDjYnGtJpS9Q@mail.gmail.com>

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In message <CAG5KPzws=3DjmF2wLeEAz8Lzn7Ugude=3D0w5neoQjeDjYnGtJpS9Q@mail.g=
mail.com>
, Ben Laurie writes:

>OpenSSL includes (and is used for) lots of crypto that is not used in
>SSL - since BearSSL targets SSL/TLS only, it can't, presumably, be
>used to replace all uses of OpenSSL.

Which implicitly raises the question if we really need all the
boatloads of crap OpenSSL drags in, or if we would be in a better
position with something simpler and saner ?

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