At 8:09 PM -0800 2/19/00, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > Having _a_ general-purpose cryptography toolkit in the base system allows
> > us to add in all sorts of cool things to FreeBSD (https support for fetch,
> > openssh, random cryptographic enhancements elsewhere). OpenSSL just
> > happens to be the only decent freely-available (BSDL) toolkit.
>
>And I still think that this is a reasonable objective, the current
>gymnastics for making it happen making me wonder whether or not that
>would not be an objective better moved to sometime in September.
This will be a lot easier once the patent expires. We would probably
be better off sticking with the ports-version until then, so we don't
have to delay 4.0-release until all the issues are sorted out. If
4.0 is delayed, I want it delayed for things which are actually busted,
and not to move features from the ports collection to the base system.
I think everyone agrees that having a cryptography toolkit in the
base system would be great, but we don't have to have it for *this*
release, and there are no "cool things" for *this* release which
depend on some cryptography toolkit being part of the base system.
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