nettle for crypto primitives

[clinty]

Please use Nettle instead of OpenSSL for hash functions, cipher modes, and such.

[wernerd]

Why? How proven is Nettle? Who are the authors? Or, if you don't like openSSL use the standalone crypto modules.

[clinty]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettle_(cryptographic_library)

[wernerd]

Why? ZRTP already has a backend to use the crypto primitives
of openSSL and also has a mode (option during cmake) to use a standalone
mode that does not require an crpyto backend at all.

Werner

Am 14.10.2014 um 18:30 schrieb clinty:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettle_(cryptographic_library)

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[clinty]

OpenSSL presents licensing and security problems. Are you referring to the if(NOT HAVE_OPENSSL_EC_H) section? If so, which versions of gcrypt will it build with?

[wernerd]

To which version of the ZRTP lib do you refer to? there is no gcrypt support
as crypto backend since several years. Please check the newest version.

Werner

Am 15.10.2014 um 21:45 schrieb clinty:

NOT HAVE_OPENSSL_EC_H

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