Re: SHA, MD, and openssl

2013-12-13 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Note I've changed coreutils not automatically use these routines where availa

Re: SHA, MD, and openssl

2013-12-13 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 12/13/2013 12:21 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > But SHA1 and SHA256 are

Re: SHA, MD, and openssl

2013-12-13 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] But SHA1 and SHA256 are commonly available accelerated in hardware. For this

Re: SHA, MD, and openssl

2013-12-12 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 12/12/2013 10:15 AM, Richard Stallman wrote: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > The Major Component her

Re: SHA, MD, and openssl

2013-12-12 Thread Richard Stallman
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] The Major Component here is not the Linux kernel; it's cryptographic services

Re: SHA, MD, and openssl

2013-12-11 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Pádraig Brady writes: > BTW openssl.org says it's OK to use these interfaces from GPL software > due to the system lib exception: > http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#LEGAL2 AFAIK that's legally irrelevant.[1] The FSF (as copyright holder in the GPL itself!) can comment on the intended

Re: SHA, MD, and openssl

2013-12-11 Thread Glenn Morris
Pádraig Brady wrote: > BTW openssl.org says it's OK to use these interfaces from GPL software > due to the system lib exception: > http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#LEGAL2 But some people disagree with that interpretation, eg: http://lwn.net/Articles/428111/ http://lintian.debian.org/tags

Re: SHA, MD, and openssl

2013-12-11 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 12/11/2013 06:54 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > [Adding bug-gnulib to CC. This discussion no longer directly affects > Emacs, since I removed the libcrypto support from Emacs yesterday > . Gnulib > still has support for linking to libcrypto

Re: SHA, MD, and openssl

2013-12-11 Thread Paul Eggert
[Adding bug-gnulib to CC. This discussion no longer directly affects Emacs, since I removed the libcrypto support from Emacs yesterday . Gnulib still has support for linking to libcrypto, though, so it's still relevant for gnulib. This