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Re: more issues

On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:

> From: Derrick J Brashear <shadow@dementia.org>
> 
> shadow> 2) I have an application which needs both Heimdal and OpenSSL;
> shadow> OpenSSL libcrypto and Heimdal libdes try to provide some of
> shadow> the same things; The des stuff is conflicting. For now I'm
> shadow> dealing by modifying the libcrypto to not include the
> shadow> duplicated stuff, but that's not a good general way to solve
> shadow> the problem. Suggestions?
> 
> libdes is originally Eric Young's libdes, right?  The DES

Yes.

> implementation in OpenSSL is also originally libdes, so my question
> is: what things are different today?  One possiblity is to have
> Heimdal optionally link with libcrypto, discarding the Heimdal libdes.
> If such a move requires some additions to OpenSSL, I'm willing to take
> a look at it.

If I get some time I'll try to go through and see what's changed

-D