On 18 Oct 2017 00:39, "William Stein" <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 4:35 PM Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) < drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk> wrote:
>> There are a lot of number theorists using Sagemath. Could one or more consider implementing the functionality of OpenSSL in a re-write? Maybe a Google Summer of Code project? > > > Absolutely not. That's not how security software works (and would be insulting to the OpenSSL developers). You are **epically** understimating what OpenSSL is and does. I don't see how it is insulting to someone to say we like what you have done, but need a different licence model, so will need to implement the algoithms ourselves. How is that materially different to Octave implementing MATLAB functionality but under an open source licence? I feel an unacceptable licence and/or a broken implementation on one platform (OSX) are both reasons for a rewrite. It seems that there are both problems now. What in my opinion is insulting is to 1) Add the OpenSSL code to Sagemath, knowing full well it is against the licence. How anybody can justify such action is beyond me. 2) Email people and say that you assume that they agree unless they say they object. Dave -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
