[Pkg-xen-devel] xen-utils links libssl

Bastian Blank waldi at debian.org
Fri Jun 20 21:07:50 UTC 2008


On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:26:41PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> The blktap things in xen-utils links against libcrypto. The code is GPL.
> What should we do about it? It uses it only for MD5 and even only uses
> 32bit of the result.

Patch to remove the libcrypto dependency and use libgcrypt. Completely
unchecked.

Next step would be the removal of the inline copy of aes and also use
the functionality from gcrypt.

Bastian

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