"brian m. carlson" <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > If we ship the code, then someone has to maintain it, and I don't know > if we have any assembly experts. We might also have a bug that produced > incorrect results, which would be pretty disastrous for the affected > users. It's much better for maintainability if we push that off onto > the cryptographic library maintainers who are much more competent in > that regard than I am (I will not speak for others) and let distro > maintainers simply link the appropriate library, which, as I said above, > they're already effectively doing. Thanks for a well reasoned response. Very much appreciated.