curl-library
Re: upcoming fun
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 10:51:00 +0200
On Mon 11.04.2005 09:55, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
>On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Alexander Lazic wrote:
>
>>At the moment libcurl _need_ a ssl-lib for ntlm-auth, as i know.
>
>We either need code in libcurl that does DES and MD4, or we use a lib
>that provides them.
>
>1. OpenSSL provides them, so when we built with that there's no
>problem.
>
>2. GnuTLS uses libgcrypt for encryption, and that too offers DES and
>MD4 functions. We just haven't adjusted the libcurl NTLM code to use
>the libgcrypt functions.
>
>3. Of course, if a user wants to build libcurl without SSL suppport but
>with NTLM support, we could offer a build against another crypto
>lib. But this situation has not yet happened and I think the point 2
>above is much more likely to hit people.
You are right sorry for the inconvenience.
al ;-)
Received on 2005-04-11