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List:       opensolaris-security-discuss
Subject:    Re: [sfwnv-discuss] Resending: Code review request for perl_crypt_des
From:       Krishna Yenduri <bhargava.yenduri () sun ! com>
Date:       2009-09-10 19:40:58
Message-ID: 4AA9564A.6060507 () sun ! com
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On 09/08/09 23:25, Spoorthy H.S wrote:
> ...
>>>> It would be really nice if this module could use one of the many 
>>>> existing
>>>> DES implementations on Solaris instead of shipping yet another, but
>>>> changing
>>>> that would pretty much replace all the upstream source code, so I
>>>> guess is
>>>> outside the realm of a simple port.
>>>>         
>>> How can I use the existing DES implementations ?
>>>     
>>
>> Hopefully someone on security-interest@sun.com can help there.
>>
>>   
> This is the dependent package for Crypt-CBC package which I had sent 
> for code review already. Crypt-CBC package looks for the package 
> Crypt-DES. If DES is installed, then the package Crypt-CBC will work. 
> If DES is present already, I want to know how can I use it.

 Assuming you can use AES too, you may want to look at using/delivering
 Crypt-OpenSSL-AES package instead of something like Crypt-DES.
 The former is simply a wrapper around the OpenSSL library
 and we have OpenSSL in Solaris.

-Krishna
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