On 12/13/2013 12:21 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > But SHA1 and SHA256 are commonly available accelerated in hardware. > For this very small subset of routines should we not consider > libcrypto as a system library to these hardware specific interfaces. > > This has nothing to do with what we "should consider". > It is a legal criterion stated in the GPL.
OK. Note I've changed coreutils not automatically use these routines where available. thanks, Pádraig.
