[Cryptography-dev] Bundling OpenSSL

[Paul Kehrer]

On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>
> We'll support being backed by OpenSSL either way, exarkun wants to use
> our bindings to power that. This library is going to support multiple
> backing libs so someone could choose to use Crypto++ over OpenSSL
> if they desired.
>
> The question I guess becomes what features do we consider a minimum
> as that will drive a lot of the decision making as to what library (if any) we
> bundle as the "well we'll know for sure we have this available".
>

Agreed. I'm not sure how we arrive at this list though. My one hard
requirement would be that an AEAD mode should be available to every
user of cryptography. We can't get that without bundling something.