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

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Feb 8, 2017, at 3:18 PM, Peter Wu <peter () lekensteyn nl> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 10:51:29AM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> > On Feb 8, 2017, at 5:40 AM, Peter Wu <peter () lekensteyn nl> wrote:
> >
> > > I did not expect Libgcrypt to consume entropy when it is just doing
> > > decryption.
> >
> > I'm concerned with consuming CPU and wall-clock time - i.e., slowing *shark startup - not entropy.
>
> Could you clarify this concern? I did not observe an attempt by
> Libgcrypt to obtain entropy at startup

Good!  That means that libgcrypt won't cause this sort of problem that OpenSSL causes:

        https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-users/2015-January/000295.html

or that libgcrypt caused on Windows at one point:

        https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3270

I remember some issue such as this coming up somewhere in Wireshark, but it might have been bug 3270.
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