On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Andy Polyakov wrote:
I don't find it hard to believe that there're 16-bit (or even 8-bit) systems out there. I find it hard to believe that the originator managed to get OpenSSL 0.9.8 working on a 16-bit system, even without SHA-512 support. A.
Lots of embedded work is still on 8-bit processors- 8051s, 68HC11s, etc. The 16 bits are being replaced by low-end 32-bit processors. But 8-bits are going to be here for a long time.
I'm not sure that OpenSSL is a good code base to be used on 8-bit embedded systems, and at 200K, it's probably iffy for 16-bit systems. So I could easily see OpenSSL going "We don't support small systems (sub 32-bit)". But that doesn't mean they aren't out there.
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