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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] crypto signing take 2
From: |
Tom Lord |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] crypto signing take 2 |
Date: |
Mon, 8 Dec 2003 14:11:46 -0800 (PST) |
> From: Karel Gardas <address@hidden>
> > Where can I read about it and why do you think it is important?
> www.openssl.org, download, compile, install, and run "openssl smime help"
> -- you will also need to generate your key and certificate and also your
> own certificate authority for the experiments.
I think not. (Both on general principles and because I already spent
N+1 hours today finding the magic combinations of prerequisit-package
version numbers and configure options to get q-agent installed. [*])
> In fact I do not care about x509 support a lot now, I just think that it
> would be sad to design tla support for crypto signatures non-extensible
> and for better testing extensibility, it's great to use two different
> technologies :-)
I agree in principle but sometimes trying to form the generalizations
up front is more trouble than it's worth. The general approach that
we're talking about doesn't preclude future extension/generalization.
-t
[*] It's funny, from my perspective, when people talk about using
q-agent in order to keep the "TCB" small. Geeze, I only had to
install about 10MB of new source (including an out of date version
of one package) just to get it to compile.
And all that for a server program and wrapper that should be, at
_most_, 10 pages of very portable unix code.
You really don't appreciate how incredibly _bad_ the portability
and excessive interdependencies of free software has become until
you're installing it on something other than the very small number
of platforms that most people use.
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] crypto signing take 2, Karel Gardas, 2003/12/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] crypto signing take 2, Tom Lord, 2003/12/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] crypto signing take 2, Karel Gardas, 2003/12/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] crypto signing take 2,
Tom Lord <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] crypto signing take 2, Karel Gardas, 2003/12/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] crypto signing take 2, David Brown, 2003/12/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] crypto signing take 2, Joshua Haberman, 2003/12/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] crypto signing take 2, David Brown, 2003/12/08
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] crypto signing take 2, Andrew Suffield, 2003/12/08
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] crypto signing take 2, Tom Lord, 2003/12/10
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] crypto signing take 2, Colin Walters, 2003/12/10
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] crypto signing take 2, Andrew Suffield, 2003/12/11
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] crypto signing take 2, Robert Collins, 2003/12/12