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From: mal at lemburg.com (M.-A. Lemburg)
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Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 15:53:57 GMT
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Subject: OpenSSL/X.509
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References: <7e1hiq$a71$1@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
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<7ear25$ksf$1@news-sj-3.cisco.com>
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<14089.11820.416453.80124@bitdiddle.cnri.reston.va.us>
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<3709C8BE.4257C9F1@lemburg.com> <14090.16807.950025.496495@bitdiddle.cnri.reston.va.us> <370A78B6.2C18D10F@lockstar.com> <370BE48E.2BA9750C@lemburg.com> <370E3C56.D035A3FB@lockstar.com>
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Message-ID: <370E2295.31A119F0@lemburg.com>
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Mordy Ovits wrote:
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>
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> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
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> >
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> >>I have a fairly complete SWIGing of OpenSSL/SSleay working. I made it on
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> >>company time, so I have to get company permission to release it. If there is
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> >>real interest, I'll push for us to release it. It does all the X.509 stuff, is
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> > > very OO, and builds on win32 and unices.
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> > > Interested?
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> >
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> > Sure, but if your company is US based, then chances are high
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> > you won't be able to share the code outside the US... that's
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> > why I started mxCrypto, BTW.\
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>
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> That's debatable. The SWIG bindings contain no crypto code in their own right.
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> It is merely glue to crypto code. I wouldn't be able to release statically
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> prebuilt libraries, but why would I want to anyway? Our lawyers keep waffling
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> on this, which is why I haven't released it already. I'm really pleased with
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> it, and would love give something back to the Python community. <SIGH> How
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> long before we Americans are reduced to doing Crypto with a deck of cards? (See
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> Bruce Schneier's Solitaire).
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Well, the NCSA folks did something similar in their WWW server (they
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included bindings to some crypto-lib for authentication) and
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were called back by the NSA... but maybe the situation is different
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now.
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--
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Marc-Andre Lemburg Y2000: 266 days left
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