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Date:      Sat, 17 Mar 2001 14:00:43 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys md5.h src/lib/libmd Makefile md2.h md2c.c md4.h mdX.3 mdXhl.c ripemd.3 ripemd.h sha.3 sha.h
Message-ID:  <200103172200.f2HM0h575741@curve.dellroad.org>
In-Reply-To: <200103171212.f2HCCDf22610@gratis.grondar.za> "from Mark Murray at Mar 17, 2001 02:13:11 pm"

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Mark Murray writes:
> Perhaps this would be a good time to mention that I have a plan to
> nuke libmd in favour of the MD* and SH* routines in libcrypto. The
> libcrypto routines are a _lot_ faster than the libmd ones, and their
> use is more ubiquitous.
> 
> For the folks who don't need/want full crypto, the plan is also to
> provide a "strip-down" option to libcrypto, in order to accomodate
> paranoid governments.
> 
> This is ther first time I'm mentioning this in public, so please don't
> panic - I won't be doing anything until the right folks agree.

Not being one of the "right folks", I still agree anyway :-)

-Archie

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