From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [V3 2/2] dropbear: unbundle libtomath & libtomcrypt
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 21:22:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180321212255.20f2e2bc@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180321201608.jrkkauvpiwcla6js@tarshish>
Hello,
On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 22:16:08 +0200, Baruch Siach wrote:
> Here is my full commit on v2:
>
> Since both libraries are static only, this does not reduce the binary size. On
> the other hand, bundled libraries are more likely to work correctly with any
> give version of dropbear. The only benefit of using external libraries is when
> there is a security update to the libraries. But unless there is a known issue
> now, I'm not sure it's worth it.
>
> Do you see other reasons to prefer unbundling?
Well, exactly the one you mention: security issues.
In fact, I think you're putting the problem in the wrong direction. I
would rather say: "Unless there is a good reason to not use external
libraries, we should use external libraries rather than bundled ones".
Best regards,
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-21 20:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-21 16:03 [Buildroot] [V3 1/2] dropbear: bump to version 2018.76 Francois Perrad
2018-03-21 16:03 ` [Buildroot] [V3 2/2] dropbear: unbundle libtomath & libtomcrypt Francois Perrad
2018-03-21 17:04 ` Baruch Siach
2018-03-21 20:13 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2018-03-21 20:16 ` Baruch Siach
2018-03-21 20:22 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2018-03-22 5:36 ` Baruch Siach
2018-03-23 4:15 ` François Perrad
2018-03-23 6:16 ` Baruch Siach
2018-03-26 20:18 ` [Buildroot] [V3 1/2] dropbear: bump to version 2018.76 Thomas Petazzoni
2018-03-28 7:57 ` François Perrad
2018-03-28 8:01 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2018-03-28 8:42 ` François Perrad
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