[bug-gnulib] Re: Crypto modules

[Simon Josefsson]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> However, if some copyright cannot be tracked down, I could work on
>> adapting code from libgcrypt (which is assigned) that would be usable
>> in gnulib.
>
> That sounds reasonable to me.

I'll propose some small module to start with, to make sure there
aren't any unforeseen problems.

>> The package isn't small, about 6kloc.  The ASN.1 library has been
>> assigned to the FSF.  Is there some point when a package become too
>> large to usefully be included in gnulib?
>
> I don't think the number of lines of code is a problem.  There will be
> a problem as gnulib scales up (e.g., collision with existing names,
> much as you've already seen for md5 and sha1), but adding one more
> module shouldn't break things.

The library has its own namespace (asn1_*) so collisions is probably
not a practical problem.

Thanks.