> On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 10:23 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Well, that might be enough (though I can certainly write my own hex
> > encode/decode function) but why did I think they used part of 
> > OpenSSL to accomplish base64 or md5 or something?
> 
> There is code to handle MD5 checksums included within the Net-SNMP
> distribution.  All other security-related processing (SHA checksums
> and assorted encryption) relies on OpenSSL.
> 
> But the "encryption" of usernames can't rely on that library, since
> it needs to be available even when OpenSSL isn't installed.

Yeah, OK.  But I know I'll have OpenSSL in my installation.  And I can
see that OpenSSL includes an implentation of base64 (there's a
command-line tool to encode/decode files) but I can't find the likes of:

    char* base64encode(char* dest, const char* src, size_t n)

which would be oh so useful. ;-)


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