Alternative to BOTAN: OpenSSL

Thomas Markwalder tmark at isc.org
Thu Apr 17 10:15:27 UTC 2014


On 4/16/14, 8:56 PM, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote:
> At Wed, 16 Apr 2014 06:58:16 -0400,
> Thomas Markwalder <tmark at isc.org> wrote:
>
>> As with our other services, using an interface layer to abstract away
>> any implementation dependencies is the most viable thing to do.  People
>> like choices.   With a day or two of proper analysis and design it
>> should be a relatively simple matter to extend/rework the cryptolib
>> interface to accommodate this.   Afterall, that was the intent with this
>> library as far as I can tell.  
> Do you mean src/lib/cryptolink?  If so, yes, that was the intent.
> Unless something is changed lately, that small internal library should
> be the only place that directly refers to Botan, and it has always
> been the plan to extend it so we can provide multiple choices of
> external crypto libraries.
>
> --
> JINMEI, Tatuya
Hello Jinmei!

Hope you are well.  Yes, that is library I was referring to I just took
some memory-related liberties with it's name. ;)
Thanks for the verification.

Regards,

Thomas


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