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> 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

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