From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?P=E1draig_Brady?= Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: SHA, MD, and openssl Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 13:58:56 +0000 Message-ID: <52AB12A0.6090801@draigBrady.com> References: <83mwkbyw6v.fsf@gnu.org> <52A4DE34.7060407@cs.ucla.edu> <874n6h3238.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <52A762D6.5020908@cs.ucla.edu> <52A8B4F6.4080009@cs.ucla.edu> <52A9AFDB.1090302@draigBrady.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1386943157 20883 80.91.229.3 (13 Dec 2013 13:59:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 13:59:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, bug-gnulib@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnulib-bounces+gnu-bug-gnulib=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 13 14:59:23 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gnu-bug-gnulib@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VrTH1-00010n-1i for gnu-bug-gnulib@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 14:59:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42636 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VrTH0-000286-Ox for gnu-bug-gnulib@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 08:59:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53838) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VrTGq-00026C-Hr for bug-gnulib@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 08:59:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VrTGk-0004dn-I5 for bug-gnulib@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 08:59:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mail3.vodafone.ie ([213.233.128.45]:44903) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VrTGe-0004cf-13; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 08:59:00 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApMBADkSq1JtTBzP/2dsb2JhbAANTLlwgwaBOYMZAQEBBDIBRhALDQsJFg8JAwIBAgFFEwEHAQGIBbIhmHIXjxUHFoQgAQOfAo5S Original-Received: from unknown (HELO [192.168.1.79]) ([109.76.28.207]) by mail3.vodafone.ie with ESMTP; 13 Dec 2013 13:58:57 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130110 Thunderbird/17.0.2 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 213.233.128.45 X-BeenThere: bug-gnulib@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Gnulib discussion list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnulib-bounces+gnu-bug-gnulib=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnulib-bounces+gnu-bug-gnulib=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs:33515 gmane.emacs.devel:166371 Archived-At: On 12/13/2013 12:21 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > But SHA1 and SHA256 are commonly available accelerated in hardware. > For this very small subset of routines should we not consider > libcrypto as a system library to these hardware specific interfaces. > > This has nothing to do with what we "should consider". > It is a legal criterion stated in the GPL. OK. Note I've changed coreutils not automatically use these routines where available. thanks, Pádraig.