On Sun, Jul 29, 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
> installed. This would involve a repo copy of crypto/openssl/crypto/bn
> to contrib/openssl-bn or something, and I'd keep the two in sync with
> future vendor imports.
You're likely to get people saying "repo bloat". And it does seem a
little wrong to have two copies in the tree like that.
Just what programs are affected by this issue (ie, which use libmp)?
On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 03:41:11PM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote:
> > > libmp that I haven't been able to test is the Kerberized telnet, but
> > > since it's the same code as the other telnets, there shouldn't be any
> > > problems.
> >
> > When Mark and I talked about this a few months ago, we concluded that
> > we'd have to first break out the (self-contained) bignum lib [...]
>
> BIGNUM isn't self-contained. It needs the ERR_* subsystem, as well as
> (I think) the BIO subsystem.
...
> can get it to work, so much the better. That said, right now
> everything that uses libmp could be considered `crypto' code, anyway,
I don't see anything wrong with that. At this point the `crypto' code
should be seen as virtually required. Originally was was "optional"
because of USA export laws. That is not an issue today.
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