From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: SHA, MD, and openssl Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 07:21:55 -0500 Message-ID: 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> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1386937322 16894 80.91.229.3 (13 Dec 2013 12:22:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 12:22:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, bug-gnulib@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Pádraig Brady Original-X-From: bug-gnulib-bounces+gnu-bug-gnulib=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 13 13:22:09 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 1VrRkt-0004Cy-C8 for gnu-bug-gnulib@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 13:22:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41880 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VrRks-0003Sw-Uq for gnu-bug-gnulib@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 07:22:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32785) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VrRkk-0003Sc-Ev for bug-gnulib@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 07:22:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VrRkj-0008Me-Ca for bug-gnulib@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 07:21:58 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57095) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VrRkj-0008MU-9z; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 07:21:57 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VrRkh-0006hr-MR; Fri, 13 Dec 2013 07:21:55 -0500 In-reply-to: <52A9AFDB.1090302@draigBrady.com> (message from Pádraig Brady on Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:45:15 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:33514 gmane.emacs.devel:166369 Archived-At: [[[ 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. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.