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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patch series for qemu contain multiple changes on the way encryption
> and authentication code is handled.
>
> The first patch is a behaviour change to avoid silent security holes on
> the VNC server caused by user configuration errors.
>
> Patches 2 and 3 are bugfixes to some of the multiple problems
> I had with monitor_readline(), when testing the qcow encryption
> support. monitor_readline() is still not completely functional, but
> at least it allows the qcow password to be read when an qcow encrypted
> image is specified on the command-line, now.
>
> The remaining patches may be more controversial. The first half makes the
> use of aes.c and d3des.c optional at compile time. The rest remove aes.c
> and d3des.c from the source tree and replace them with calls to libgcrypt.
>   

What's the availability of libgcrypt?  Are there Windows versions 
readily available?  That would be my biggest concern here.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori