Re: [Integrit-users] poll: integrit source distro size and BeeCrypt

[<lie...@pa...>]

You have my blessing. If openssl doesn't need to be installed in order to
compile integrit, I think it's worth the effort.
btw: the solaris version works great now.

Franky

On 19 Feb 2001, Ed L Cashin wrote:

> Hi, everyone.  I'd like to fish for comments.  I'm still waiting for a
> response from the openssl core group regarding distribution of an
> integrit binary that's been statically linked against openssl.
> 
> Meanwhile, I've discovered BeeCrypt:
> 
>     http://www.virtualunlimited.com/products/beecrypt/
> 
> ... which is LGPL and has MD5 and SHA-1 hashing implementations.  The
> SHA-1 has an assembly implementation and the author, Bob Deblier, is
> planning an assembly MD5 implementation, so I'm not worried that it
> will be compeditive with openssl in terms of performance.
> 
> I asked them about distributing a statically-linked binary integrit
> linked against libbeecrypt, including only the files for MD5 and SHA-1
> in the integrit source.  They responded with an offer that they'd be
> happy with that if I include the whole BeeCrypt source tree in the
> integrit source tree.
> 
> That would increase the size of the integrit source distribution from
> about 150K to about 290K.  (Compared to 214K for aide and 1,725K for
> tripwire.)
> 
> What's the general feeling out there?  Would anyone mind a bigger
> source distribution or is it worth it in order to be able to
> distribute binaries?
> 
> -- 
> --Ed Cashin                    integrit file verification system
>   ec...@co...          http://integrit.sourceforge.net/
> 
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