Should we settle on one SSL implementation?

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Mon Oct 22 15:17:49 UTC 2007


On Monday 22 October 2007 09:47:12 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Nevertheless, I don't think you're going to get rid of the competing SSL
> libraries.  Rewriting code to use a different API is a lot of make-work
> that no one wants to do, and doesn't contribute much benefit to anyone.

This is true and not the aim of the crypto consolidation project. What we are 
aiming to do is create a --with-nss option for as many packages as feasible 
and then Fedora can use that in package building. We have also created an 
openssl compatible API to help ease the transition.

-Steve




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