After sending the email, I figured out that k5ssl had everything, so
now I'm fighting with trying to get it to build correctly.

If we have a portable k5ssl, what do we need hcrypt for?

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 07:16:32PM -0400, Matt W. Benjamin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> And of course, rxk5 did not use anything from hcrypt.  It was at the cost of 
> providing its own framework, completely portable.  We might still have wanted 
> to use builtins, of course.  I didn't think on Linux we were prevented by the 
> GPL.  Just never got around to that.
> 
> Matt
> 
> ----- "Troy Benjegerdes" <ho...@hozed.org> wrote:
> 
> > I have something now that compiles, both without rxk5, and with:
> > 
> > ./configure --enable-rxk5 --with-krb5-conf=/usr/bin/krb5-config
> > 
> > What doesn't work is it's not been tested at all, and the kernel
> > module for linux does not compile. Part of the problem with the 
> > kernel module is src/external/heimdal/hcrypt/evp.c has a whole
> > bunch of free/malloc/calloc stuff that is going to cause issues
> > when used in the kernel.
> > 
> > So one general question: Is there any code that I can pull in for
> > rxgk (or look at) and see how this issue is resolved.
> > 
> > Another issue: Linux has a nice set of in-kernel crypto functions,
> > why can't we use those instead of re-inventing the wheel?
> > 
> > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 06:29:08PM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote:
> > > Please comment, clone, and fork.
> > > 
> > > https://bitbucket.org/dahozer/tfs
> > > 
> > > I will accept pretty much any change that has some tests and passes
> > 'make check' on linux.
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