[Rpm-maint] Migration from Beecrypt to NSS

[Tomas Mraz]

On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 15:08 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 12:10 +0100, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> >> The patch https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=245451
> >> which I have attached to
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=348131
> >> provides migration of RPM from using Beecrypt to NSS.
> >>
> >> The patch should apply to the current 4.2.2 branch.
> >>
> >> As NSS base64 encoding support is not as flexible as we need I have
> >> imported and modified base64 encoding source from public domain base64
> >> encoder project http://libb64.sourceforge.net/.
> >>
> >> The patch shouldn't break any public API/ABI.
> >>
> >> Comments? Reviews?
> 
> Looks sane to me, ignoring the fact that I'm blissfully ignorant of inner 
> crypto :) Cursory testing shows it appears to work too, and even slightly 
> faster (a few percents on my laptop) than with beecrypt.
> 
> > IMO, this step is a great idea, however at least I would prefer to let
> > major changes (such as this) to go into the trunk, first.
> 
> Sure. We actually agreed with Tomas he'd do the initial development against 
> 4.4.x to have a stable base to work on as HEAD's been in quite a bit of 
> flux and then forward port it.
> 
> > Would it be possible to provide a patch against the trunk?
> 
> I already started looking at it, although Tomas or someone else beats me 
> to it I wont mind ;)
I'm already porting it and I'm almost finished as there were no
substantial changes in the code touched by the patch. I'll attach the
trunk patch to the bug report.

-- 
Tomas Mraz
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                                              Turkish proverb