[pacman-dev] Crypto algorithms

[Dan McGee]

On 4/9/07, Ryan Phillips <ryan-arch at trolocsis.com> wrote:
> 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?

We should talk to the monotone guys and find out where it stands wrt
licensing issues:
http://www.venge.net/mtn-wiki/SpeedySpeedySHA1

I came across that this morning as well, I don't know why I didn't put
it in my last email.

-Dan