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To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>,
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Subject: Re: OpenSSL vs. -lmd
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On Thursday 01 August 2002 06:15 pm, Terry Lambert wrote:
= I would call the contortions that Mozilla goes through to get an
= alternate OpenSSL "Heroic measures".

Those measures are also the stupid ones. There is no need for them.

= Asking every software vendor out there to perform the same contortions
= so that their applications aren't FreeBSD-specific after they're
= written is unacceptable.

Nobody is planning to ask them. If your application only compiles with a
particular version of OpenSSL means the app is broken.

In any case, to bring this thread back to the SUBJECT, having -lmd does
not help those poor vendors a bit. I'd suggest using -lmd _inside_
-lcrypto, if OpenSSL's implementations of the digests weren't faster...

Since they are, -lmd should be dropped. Whatever your opinion on the
rest of OpenSSL, its API(s) did not change in a while... Especially in
the Message Digest area.

	-mi


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