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Re: [mnet-devel] Ditching crypto++ for pycrypto (fwd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Sun Dec 8 13:17:07 2002

Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 15:04:15 -0800
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0212021919020.26970-100000@hydrogen.leitl.org>
To: Cryptography List <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>,
	Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>

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On 2 Dec 2002 at 19:19, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> I have to admit that Crypto++'s build/port problems suck, a
> lot.  I still have a weird fondness for it (Stockholm
> Syndrome?).

Anything that is good, gets ported a lot.  Anything that is
ported a lot gets build/port problems.

If, on the other hand, something basically sucks and is seldom
maintained, it never has any build port problems. 

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         James A. Donald
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