In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 02:15:15 -0700, "Kyle Hamilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
aerowolf> On 3/19/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: aerowolf> > aerowolf> > aerowolf> > >I think we have 2 options: aerowolf> > >- Completly drop the old des support, including des_old.h aerowolf> > >- Drop the libdes compatibility, so that it's only compatible aerowolf> > > with older openssl versions, and people can still use the des_* aerowolf> > > versions. aerowolf> > > aerowolf> > aerowolf> > How about option 3 - change the default to not include it but aerowolf> > leave the code still in there, then see how many people aerowolf> > squawk about old des support "missing" and get told to aerowolf> > set the flag to include it, then make a decision about aerowolf> > stripping it out completely, based on that. aerowolf> aerowolf> My personal opinion is that if there's an external library aerowolf> which can provide DES services (libdes), that should be used aerowolf> to help reduce the amount of cruft in the codebase. Do you know that before we did the API change, crypto/des was libdes? The trouble was that the variants of libdes that were floating around were configured differently from the crypto/des variants, which caused all kinds of clashes when some projects tried to be compatible with both libdes and libcrypto... Cheers, Richard ----- Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. -- Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://richard.levitte.org/ "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -- C.S. Lewis ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [email protected] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
