On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Werner Koch <[email protected]> wrote: >> Could libgcrypt and nettle share the low level algorithms so >> improvements on one project will be shared with the other? As it is now > Fell free to take whatever you need from Libgcrypt.
Of course that is possible, it always was. However, copying isn't easy when different low-level interfaces are involved, and pretty much that just prolongs the current situation. > They both you the > same license me thinks. Only for the cipher/hash/mac part which was the part I suggested to be shared. Nettle's PK interface is effectively LGPLv3 due to reliance on GMP. So that part would be more hard to benefit from a sharing. >> I think there is quite some duplicate effort being spent in making the >> two libraries faster and there is no much reason they couldn't be >> combined. > That is what free software is about, right? Well, I really want to think that it is also about collaboration. While I understand that everyone has a different agenda on the things that need to be done, schedules etc., a compromise that will benefit everyone may be possible. regards, Nikos _______________________________________________ nettle-bugs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lysator.liu.se/mailman/listinfo/nettle-bugs
