[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Steve Furlong wrote: > | > My question is, what is the layperson supposed to do, if they must use > | > crypto and can't use an off-the-shelf product? > | > | When would that be the case? > | > | The only defensible situations I can think of in which a > | non-crypto-specialist programmer would need to write crypto routines > | would be an uncommon OS or hardware, or a new or rare programming > | language which doesn't have libraries available from SourceForge etc. > | Or maybe implementing an algorithm that's new enough it doesn't have a > | decent free implementation, but I'm not sure such an algorithm should > | be used in production code. > I can tell you a situation that applied in one system I worked on: You > could > go with SSL, which gets you into GPL'ed code, not to mention the known
Eh? OpenSSL is BSD, not GPL. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
