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20 From: Ingmar Vanhassel <ingmar@exherbo.org>
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23 References: <1259378883-9181-1-git-send-email-jeff@ocjtech.us>
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24 <87ws1be35o.fsf@vertex.dottedmag>
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25 Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:59:13 +0100
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29 Subject: Re: [notmuch] [PATCH] Use libgcrypt for hashing.
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44 Excerpts from Mikhail Gusarov's message of Sat Nov 28 04:31:15 +0100 2009:
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46 > Twas brillig at 21:28:03 27.11.2009 UTC-06 when jeff@ocjtech.us did gyre and
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49 > JCO> Instead of including a private implementation of the SHA1 hash
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51 > xserver went this road, and now it has
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52 > --with-sha1=libc|libmd|libgcrypt|libcrypto|libsha1|CommonCrypto in
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55 >From a distribution & security point of view I'd much rather be able to
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56 choose one hashing library & use that as widely as possible, rather than
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57 having every application ship its own copy.
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59 > JCO> This means less code of our own to maintain and
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61 > As libsha1 maintainer I'm volunteering to maintain in-tree copy in
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64 Right, but on top of that, it would still be preferable to keep the
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65 option for packagers to use a system library instead.
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66 Most distributions have a rather strict policy to use system libraries
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67 over internal copies.
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70 Exherbo KDE, X.org maintainer
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