Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 01:46:21 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/secure/usr.bin/openssl Makefile src/secure/usr.bin/scp Makefile src/secure/usr.bin/ssh Makefile src/secure/usr.bin/ssh-add Makefile src/secure/usr.bin/ssh-agent Makefile src/secure/usr.bin/ssh-keygen Makefile ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002250142570.57682-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <93705.951471049@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > There is no reason for anyone !US to be using RSAREF, since it's inferior > > to the openssl native RSA implementation inside libcrypto. > > So you're saying there's a disparity between the libcrypto in the > international crypto repository and the one in the US, or that non-US > sites still need to wholesale replace this library? I thought getting > away from that was the whole point of abstracting rsaref away, if so. Argh, yes, thats the whole point. RSAREF sucks, it's slow, it has limitations, you don't want to be using it - but we in the US have no choice. There are still two versions of libcrypto, one with the mighty full native RSA crypto for the lucky foreigners and the spayed one which has to drink from the toilet of RSAREF. Kris ---- "How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man?" "Eight!" "That was a rhetorical question!" "Oh..then, seven!" -- Homer Simpson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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