From: mal at lemburg.com (M.-A. Lemburg)
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 15:53:57 GMT
Subject: OpenSSL/X.509
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Mordy Ovits wrote:
> 
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> >
> >>I have a fairly complete SWIGing of OpenSSL/SSleay working.  I made it on
> >>company time, so I have to get company permission to release it.  If there is
> >>real interest, I'll push for us to release it.  It does all the X.509 stuff, is
> > > very OO, and builds on win32 and unices.
> > > Interested?
> >
> > Sure, but if your company is US based, then chances are high
> > you won't be able to share the code outside the US... that's
> > why I started mxCrypto, BTW.\
> 
> That's debatable.  The SWIG bindings contain no crypto code in their own right.
> It is merely glue to crypto code.  I wouldn't be able to release statically
> prebuilt libraries, but why would I want to anyway?  Our lawyers keep waffling
> on this, which is why I haven't released it already.  I'm really pleased with
> it, and would love give something back to the Python community.  <SIGH>  How
> long before we Americans are reduced to doing Crypto with a deck of cards?  (See
> Bruce Schneier's Solitaire).

Well, the NCSA folks did something similar in their WWW server (they
included bindings to some crypto-lib for authentication) and
were called back by the NSA... but maybe the situation is different
now.

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