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Date:      Wed, 29 Jan 2003 14:20:36 -0500 (EST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Max Khon <fjoe@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>, "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>, Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/secure/lib/libcrypto Makefile Makefile.inc des_crypt.3 opensslconf-alpha.h opensslconf-i386.h opensslconf-ia64.h opensslconf-powerpc.h opensslconf-sparc64.h src/secure/lib/libcrypto/man ASN1_OBJECT_new.3 ASN1_STRING_length.3 ...
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030129141959.11973G-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030129062807.A56346@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Max Khon wrote:

> > A related topic. I thought, it was agreed to, at some point, remove our
> > implementations of things, OpenSSL provides, in favor of the OpenSSL's
> > replacements -- may be, after merging in the differences, or some such.
> > I'm talking primarily of the message digest library (-lmd), which is
> > (almost) API compatible with -lcrypto (MD5Final vs. MD5_Final).
> 
> OpenSSL lacks some functions our -lmd has:  MDX_File, MDX_FileChunk and
> MDX_End. 
> 
> I have a patch that removes -lmd from base system (it has some raw edges
> and is a bit outdated but its does most of the job). 

Also, we consider OpenSSL to be "crypto" which might be subject to export
limits, but I don't think we consider MD5 to be crypto in the same sense.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Network Associates Laboratories



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