Thanks again for that advise. With the help of Carl it's running now and getting a demo running when you just saw the code for 4 weeks, isn't that easy, but yeah all my fault, thanks!
René 2009/7/29 Peter Stuge <[email protected]> > René Reuter wrote: > > - Another library with SHA-2 family is hard too find > > LibTom has the code, I've used it in mysql-sha256 and it works well. > http://git.stuge.se/?p=mysql-sha256.git > > > > and I can't use any untrusted or unmaintained code in my thesis, > > but thanks for that. > > This is a very surprising statement from an author on the topic of > trust. > > What constitutes untrusted for you? Is upstream OpenSSL the only > trusted code? Or is it debian OpenSSL? (I don't care that the problem > was in debian in particular, it is just an example.) > > Why is unmaintained code a problem at all? Did you investigate why > LibTom is unmaintained? I think it matters. > > http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=191594&cid=15743508 is a good > read too. (Yes, same Tom.) > > > > Hopefully in future, it will be easier to link foreign packages in > > Coreboot. > > Don't hold your breath. I do not expect that this will change much > for reasons described by Carl-Daniel, and in particular any change > should not happen in coreboot. > > "Foreign packages" are not written with the boot environment in mind, > thus they do not function well there. This is true also for the very > foundation of open source "foreign packages" namely gcc. The reason > is simple; the boot environment is different enough from an operating > system environment to cause a lot of problems in common assumptions > made in software. > > I think you could have gotten some good advice in time to make your > demo run had you gotten in touch earlier during your thesis work. :\ > > > //Peter > > -- > coreboot mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot >
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