There are fully open source alternatives: e.g. libtomcrypt. Regards, - Jim On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 14:26 -0500, Michael LeMay wrote: > dsr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > >On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 08:54:30AM -0500, Michael LeMay wrote: > > > > > >> I am currently working on a C panel applet to satisfy these > >>requirements that makes use of the OpenSSL cryptographic library and the > >>Berkeley DB library. I decided against storing passwords in > >>gnome-keyring because I'd like the password database to be easily > >>portable to other machines, desktops, and operating systems. I intend > >>for this application to store all passwords, basically taking the place > >>of the GPG-encrypted file some people manually maintain, or the paper > >>sticky notes I suppose a few people still use. I'm actually developing > >>a command-line client along with the panel applet to support this usage > >>model. > >> > >> > > > >It sounds like a good idea. However, have you checked the > >licensing on OpenSSL? You might want to read > >http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html > > > >-dsr- > > > > > > > > > Thanks for the tip, I had never noticed that part of the OpenSSL > license. I personally prefer OpenSSL to GNU TLS (less established) and > Mozilla NSS (much more complex and less commonly available). Since I > hold the copyright for all the code I've produced so far, I think this > may still work if I include the wording described in that document. I > guess I should ask though, what are the conceivable consequences if I > make a licensing mistake somewhere? I certainly don't want to be > responsible for any suit against Gnome. :-) > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
