Begin forwarded message: > From: Yi Qiang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: May 27, 2007 10:45:05 AM PDT > To: "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: openssl > > > On May 27, 2007, at 10:39 AM, William Stein wrote: > >> On 5/27/07, Yi Qiang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I will look into what it's going to take to get DSAGE to use gnutls. >>> The python wrapper did not compile under os x so that will need some >>> work. >> >> I tried for over an hour just to get gnutls to compile at all >> under OSX; >> all the things it depends on would build, but I simply couldn't get >> it to build. An hour isn't that long and I was tired, but I suspect >> building gnutls on osx might be harder than expected. I've put >> the relevant spkg's here in case anybody else wants to try: >> http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/was/tmp/gnutls > I think I can get it to build, simply because I just installed it > via macports. I just looked at their 'Portfile' and they include a > couple of OS X specific patches. However, I was not able to install > the python wrapper and it's not clear where to even go to get > support for that. > >> >>> However I checked out the examples directory and it looks like >>> swapping it over to TLS will be fairly easy. What is not very >>> assuring though is that I can not find any examples online of people >>> using twisted + gnutls. If we want to port the notebook over to use >>> twisted as the backend (or whatever else really) and provide SSL >>> then >>> we might be running into a lot of trouble because it's simply not >>> going to be as well tested as openssl. >> >> True. But that's just the way it is. >> >> Simple question: Can you make an insecure version of DSAGE that >> doesn't >> rely on ssl at all? Then I can release a new version of SAGE without >> openssl in it, without any degredation in performance (except ssl >> won't >> work). The other option is that I release a new SAGE with DSAGE >> nonfunctional until this ssl problem gets resolved. >> > Yes. It's pretty easy actually (change one parameter from True to > False). I'll send you a patch that changes the default behavior, > but I need to test some things before because there are a lot of > other changes. > > Cheers, > Yi > > -- > http://www.yiqiang.org > > Cheers, Yi -- http://www.yiqiang.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
