[asterisk-dev] SHA1 and MD5 code?

Paul Belanger pabelanger at digium.com
Wed Oct 12 17:22:52 CDT 2011


On 11-10-12 05:57 PM, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Simon Perreault
> <simon.perreault at viagenie.ca>  wrote:
>> On 2011-10-12 16:15, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
>>> Is there a really good reason to keep SHA1 and MD5 code in the Asterisk source?
>>
>> You do know about the backdoor requirement, don't you?
>
> Well, yes of course, but by using OpenSSL we can use the same backdoor
> that everyone else uses and we don't have to maintain our own :) :)
>
+1 for not having to maintain our own version (plus is keeps package 
maintainers happy).  However, I'm not skilled enough to determine the 
impact to asterisk.

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