A question about encryption algorithms.... (fwd)

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Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 15:05:03 -0700
From: Mitch Cant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: A question about encryption algorithms....

Why? Why? Why?

Why implement all the encryption algorithms again? It seems that there is a
"standard"? library "OpenSSL" which implements the same algorithms used in
the ssh software...

I thought one of the things we Linux types were striving against was the
fragmentations of our efforts...

(note: I am not a developer on linux yet... just an avid fan, but as a
windows developer tired of reinventing the wheel it was this understanding
that appealed to me!!!)

If there is something wrong with that library then shouldn't it be fixed?
Not duplicated elsewhere?  Is there a reason this was done? or just by
accident? or just because?

Please don't flame my ignorance... educate me.

thanks

mitch