Ssh Mailing List Administrator wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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
I wouldn't consider myself an authority, but I see value in a reasonable (you
define reasonable ;-) number of implementations. It's not possible to see the
whole story if the world only aproaches the problem from one direction -- I
agree that we want the focus on quality of implementation not quantity. But
sometimes I think you need a little bit of both. Hey, anyway, there are a lot
of people on the face of the planet working on this stuff. There is probablly
not enough code in any one implementation to go around! ;-)
I know I'm feeding an off-topic thread... don't worry I won't post on it again
-- No flames please.
My $0.04
Leo
