proposal of new packages: libmhash and libmcrypt

Stefan Hetzl shetzl@chello.at
Sat Sep 27 11:44:00 GMT 2003


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On Saturday 27 September 2003 13:24, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 12:46:51PM +0200, Stefan Hetzl wrote:
> > > Isn't that covered by the OpenSSL crypto lib?  Do we need two crypto
> > > libs? I'm not exactly against inclusion, just curious what the
> > > advantage is.
> >
> > OpenSSL does only implement 7 of the above mentioned algorithms. AES
> > (Advanced Encryption Standard - dedicated successor of DES) is not among
> > them.
>
> It is.
Yes, you are right. It shows up in the source distribution, I did only look at 
the documentation on the website which does not mention it.

Greetings,
Stefan
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