Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (422 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 11:33:48PM +0100, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> usage of different crypto libraries is quite cluttered over the openSUSE
> distribution (actually every Linux distribution).
> Those include:
> OpenSSL
> Mozilla's NSS
> GnuTLS
> libgcrypt
>
> This is caused by different things and can't be avoided but I'm still
> wondering about a few things:
>
> - is there a policy which framework to use if the upstream project
>   offers more options?
> - if there is no policy yet should there be one?
> - would it make sense to join or introduce an own project like Fedora's
>   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraCryptoConsolidation

We are working this way, but slowly.

Mozilla NSS is the current favorite, if license permits.

Ciao, Marcus
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