From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jun 21 13:58:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from draco.over-yonder.net (draco.over-yonder.net [198.78.58.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7ECB37B401 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 13:58:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gh@over-yonder.net) Received: by draco.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 1012) id E8C7862D0C; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:58:09 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:58:09 -0500 From: GH To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Terry Lambert , Giorgos Keramidas , Peter Wemm , Steve Kargl , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: convert libgmp to a port? Message-ID: <20010621155809.A34073@over-yonder.net> References: <20010616201135.A60010@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20010617063845.E53DA39E9@overcee.netplex.com.au> <20010617182256.A17724@hades.hell.gr> <20010617135156.B94632@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010618010338.A50655@hades.hell.gr> <3B2FABA8.D439B306@mindspring.com> <20010621131512.A52345@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010621131512.A52345@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 01:15:12PM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 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 Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 01:15:12PM -0700, some SMTP stream spewed forth: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 12:44:40PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 01:51:56PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > > > > libbn is already part of OpenSSH; it's a trivial matter to make it > ^^^^^^^ > I meant to say OpenSSL here, of course. > > > > > into a standalone library. In other words, we already include two > > > > functionally equivalent bignum libraries in FreeBSD, so one of them > > > > should go. > > > > > > I couldn't agree more :) > > > > I'm going to word this strongly, mostly because I feel > > strongly about the underlying issues. > > > > The SSL one is known to be very slow, and was written > > as a proof of concept by the author. Please read the > > release notes; it is seriously slow. Replacing it will > > increase your SSL performance significantly. > > I know of no-one who has developed patches to make OpenSSL work with > an external math library (e.g. libgmp). The OpenSSL guys are very > interested in cleaning up their legacy code; you should work with them > if you are interested. > > In FreeBSD, the only use of the libgmp code is for non-speed-critical > applications, so replacing it with a less efficient library doesn't > cost anything. libgmp will still exist in ports for applications > which want to make use of a more efficient library. > Am I understanding this correctly? We currently have implemented a more efficient library than one you propose expending effort to plug in? You propose that people remove the currently implemented and more efficient library and replace it with a less-efficient library of non-native BSD origin? Really? This hardly seems like a good idea. gh > Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message