Resolving the crypto duplicity...

Dag-ErlingSmørgrav des at des.no
Wed Feb 4 06:01:42 PST 2004


Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
> I would like to propose that we try to eliminate the private copies
> of crypto functions in sys/opencrypto and instead focus on the
> copies in src/crypto as our "generic" implementations.
>
> Are there any technical or political reasons why we should not do this ?

I'm not sure how well-tested the KAME code is.  For instance, until
recently, src/sys/crypto/md5.c used a static buffer as temporary
storage on big-endian systems, making it non-reentrant.

DES
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