Subject: Re: adding gpg to src/gnu/dist
To: None <tech-userlevel@NetBSD.org, tech-security@NetBSD.org>
From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
List: tech-security
Date: 05/13/2004 16:05:38
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>>>>> "Simon" == Simon J Gerraty <sjg@crufty.net> writes:
    Simon> That may sound like a lot of mucking about - especially
    Simon> compared to the peer to peer model of GPG or SSH, but it has
    Simon> advantages in terms of scalability (which are perhaps not
    Simon> particularly important here).

  Frankly, you said it all here.

  If this is the only advantage, I don't think the complexity of the
"OpenSSL" is worth it.  As many have said, the "openssl" binary is
particularly poorly suited to actually doing anything with the library.
  If the code is built into pkg_* - i.e. we are using libssl, not
"openssl", great. Openssl is too hard to script.

  Otherwise, I suggest using simpleca (http://www.vpnc.org/simpleca/ )
or sticking with GnuPG, as sucky as I think GnuPG is.
  
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