In some email I received from Magosanyi Arpad, sie wrote:
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> A levelez_m azt hiszi, hogy Darren Reed a k_vetkez_eket _rta:
> > In some email I received from Balazs Scheidler, sie wrote:
> > > * we should support a set of encryption, mac and key exchange algorithms to
> > > be negotiated at startup
> >
> > It is questionable whether we should "roll our own" crypto...mandate the use
> > of SSL or IPsec. Not using existing crypto means you have to get the crypto
> > right and then you've got X.509 issues, etc. Time is better spent elsewhere
> > - other people have already "solved this", lets stop reinenting the wheel.
>
> There were some people on the list saying that they need the new syslog protocol
> in embedded systems. A full ssl implementation might be a showstopper for such
> a system, but a little nice symmetric-key crypto might be okay.
> If we say that we don't care about embedded systems, I am happy with something
> good and existing.
Bad crypto is worse than no crypto at all.
Darren
