Alternate Open Source Crypto Solution in OpenSSH

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Tue Jan 5 14:23:31 AEDT 2016


On Mon, 4 Jan 2016, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

> Damien, you said you're uninterested in linking to a GPL library -- is
> OpenSSH policy the same for LGPL libraries as well? (i'm thinking of
> nettle, which is licensed LGPL-2.1+, and has a very nice API for
> cryptoprimitives)

I'd like to get us to a point where all the crypto stuff happens
via a handful of files that implement a simple API that is backed up
with a good suite of tests from the OpenSSH side.

Speaking only for myself, I don't really want to do any library-
specific porting until then.

-d



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