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Re: -currents /rescue binaries all dump core



On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 08:53:55PM -0700, Tom Spindler wrote:
> > Not on amd64. But I am considering a patch to disable cipher-ctr-mt.c
> > so that libssh does not need pthreads again.
> 
> Sounds like a good idea to me; IMHO, that sort of stuff should use
> the crypto framework, anyway. If nothing else, it should be made
> #ifdef'able for these sorts of situations.

When you say "the crypto framework" do you mean the in-kernel crypto
framework?  That would result in openssl doing a system call for every
cryptographic operation: probably not what is wanted.

-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon                                        
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