Adding standalone RSA code

Mark Murray markm at FreeBSD.ORG
Fri Dec 10 10:00:17 PST 2004


Colin Percival writes:
>  > Is size really a concern?
> 
> No.  The size is a side-effect of having a minimal, highly secure,
> library, and was not a design consideration.

"New" very often means "Insecure". I'd rather see something with lots 
of eyes over it, and OpenSSL has the advantage of having quite a few 
competent crypto guys grovel through it.

I'm still inclined to say "Please stick with OpenSSL; it is the devil 
we know."

M
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