Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivili...@iki.fi> writes:

> Do other crypto libraries do this? Surely this control should not be in 
> library side but in
> application. Libgcrypt could be loaded by application for number of reasons 
> and not all
> those use-cases require toggling these knobs (such as file checksumming, CRC 
> or SHA). Even
> worse, libgcrypt might be loaded by another library and actual application 
> may not even
> have knowledge of that. Libgcrypt might get loaded through library 
> dependencies but
> end up not being used by application at all (except initialization, 
> global_init, etc).

I had the same thought when I saw the patch and checked openssl. It
doesn't do it. Perhaps some others do, but I don't have them cloned to
check. :)

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