[pacman-dev] Crypto algorithms

[Ryan Phillips]

Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> said:
> We have a rather ragtag set of cryptography functions in use right
> now, and weird files being used (md5driver? wtf). Looking around I
> came across these LGPLed hash libraries that we can probably use in
> pacman.
> 
> BeeCrypt- http://directory.fsf.org/security/crypt/BeeCrypt.html
> Documentation- http://beecrypt.sourceforge.net/doxygen/c/index.html
> 

Please forgive my ignorance, why not use OpenSSL?

-Ryan