Bindings in standard library is really wierd, especially for porting and
maintaining on various system (linux, android,...)
Le 29 janv. 2014 20:32, "Sean McArthur" <[email protected]> a écrit :

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> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Tony Arcieri <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> As it were, ruby-core is now talking about extracting OpenSSL into a
>> separate library packaged independently from the standard distribution.
>> They are not cryptographic domain experts, don't want to be responsible for
>> it, and having it in the standard library limits their agility around
>> incident response when security problems are discovered.
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> Understandable. Though, packaging bindings to a mature implementation
> would reduce the need for experts in Rust, and still give users the "this
> is audited crypto code, use it" message.
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>> rust-crypto is a brand new implementation of a bunch of crypto which
>> hasn't been well-audited. That alone should worry you.
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> I was under the impression that rust-crypto was extra::crypto moved into a
> separate library. I could be wrong.
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>> I would definitely not be a fan of a non-battle hardened crypto library
>> being in core Rust.
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> I wouldn't be either. Whichever library is used, Rust could call it
> libcrypto, and I as a user can trust that it's a good library that I can
> use.
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