> IMO, writing security software by doing something that is specifically not > documented or guaranteed to work and then trying to fix every problem it > creates (at least, that you can find) is completely insane.
Guaranteed to work? Who's doing the indemnification? Security's all about trade-offs. If you can make some simplifying assumptions that cut out large parts of code you might well be better off. /r$ -- STSM, DataPower Chief Programmer WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances http://www.ibm.com/software/integration/datapower/ ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]