Re: Remove our bundled crypto library (in favor of Libgcrypt)?

[João Valverde <joao.valverde () tecnico ulisboa pt>]

On 02/05/2017 03:21 PM, Peter Wu wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Recently I discovered that wsutil actually contains a lot of
> cryptographic functionalities (AES, SHA-1, DES, etc.). This duplicates
> Libgcrypt functionality.
>
> At the moment Libgcrypt is optional and used to provide decryption
> functionality for SSL/TLS/DTLS, IPsec DVBCI, 802.15.4, SNMP, Zigbee and
> more.  What do you think about nuking the bundled crypto routines in
> wsutil and use Libgcrypt instead?
>
> The easiest option would be making Libgcrypt mandatory, otherwise we
> would have to add ifdef's everywhere (or create a compatibility layer
> that disables crypto when Libgcrypt is unavailable).

+1 mandatory dependency.
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