[asterisk-dev] Re: [asterisk-commits] trunk r9138 - in /trunk: ./ funcs/ include/asterisk/

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 07:02:26PM -0600, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> On Friday 03 February 2006 18:48, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> > Why are we adding the SHA1 code to the Asterisk code base?  Why don't
> > we use the SHA1 implementation from OpenSSL?  The license of OpenSSL
> > shouldn't be a problem since we already use OpenSSL for various other
> > functions.  

It seems that the license is a problem if you want to use MySQL (e.g:
from addons).

> > For that matter, we should eliminate the internal copies
> > of MD5 and AES and use the implementations in OpenSSL as well.
> 
> We only use OpenSSL linked in to res_crypto, and people have complained
> about linking OpenSSL into the core code, so we've gone the direction of
> having as few dependencies as possible in the core Asterisk code.

The complaints were about linking to OpenSSL. What would it take to
re-implement it (optionally!) with gnutls?

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