On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 12:32:53PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > I searched the list, but couldn't find an appropriate answer, at least not for > current releases: > > If I use --enable-crypto at buildtime, what is encrypted then? Traffic, > passwords, etc. !?
Nothing really. It just links Coda against libcrypto for the MD5 and SHA1 digest algorithms. The main tree already has 'reference' C implementations of these functions so there is no functional difference. But libcrypto typically has an optimized assembly version, so using those should be useful for performance reasons. I might also have made the kerberos code (used as an alternative to the Coda authentication) dependent on this option. Jan
