Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 08:57:20 +0100 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding standalone RSA code Message-ID: <20041210075720.GR1130@darkness.comp.waw.pl> In-Reply-To: <41B92CF3.2090302@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
index | next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail
[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 08:58:27PM -0800, Colin Percival wrote: +> I'd like to add a new library for lightweight barebones RSA +> computations, and associated commandline rsa-makekey, rsa-sign, +> and rsa-verify utilities. +> +> To a certain extent, this duplicates existing functionality +> (openssl), but I think my code has important advantages which +> justify the duplication: +> 1. It is lightweight (around 2% of the size of openssl), which +> may allow it to be used in memory-limited environments, You compered size of the source or compiled library? Compiled openssl library isn't too big... PS. This is not a 'no' voice. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBuVbgForvXbEpPzQRAnctAJ9BLPEN6OGEK4Ri54OVT1lRDjFevgCfZ+HE HxPzwjyQHqoK/jcVSOiEUKQ= =J93y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
Want to link to this message? Use this
URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20041210075720.GR1130>