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On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 5:35 PM, stephen Turner <[email protected]>
wrote:

> speaking of which (and going back to "simple is complex"), i have an
>> openssl- (or boringssl-)based md5sum/sha1sum implementation that adds
>> all the other shas too. (a toybox built with all these is actually a
>> couple of hundred bytes larger than the one with just md5/sha1sum, but
>> that's because of the duplicated help strings.)
>>
>> i know one of your goals is to minimize dependencies, but for us the
>> goal of minimizing duplication (and thus amount of code to audit) is
>> probably stronger. i suspect no one really cares that the toybox
>> hashes are slower than the openssl ones, but the security folks
>> probably will care about having another TLS implementation. (and
>> things like reimplementing zlib and bunzip2 probably fall somewhere in
>> between.)
>>
>
> in regards to openssl, tls, and the like, would these be reusable
> implementations for webkit and other web browser backends?  If other
> programs will be able to use then i would say to implement it to its
> fullest needed to support the majority of applications. otherwise if its
> only for internal support the bare minimum needed would be fine.
>
>
>> yeah, i was hoping to abdicate responsibility for subsetting and was
>> disappointed to find that 'default' didn't mean "you probably want
>> this". but it makes sense, and the subset that one project needs isn't
>> necessarily going to be the same as any other project.
>>
>>
> If were referring to defconfig i would hope it would include all intended
> to be included toybox apps that are currently stable or at least have an
> option that behaves in the same way.
>
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