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Bug#564820: ITP: libpam-barada -- PAM module to provide



On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:26:47 -0500, micah anderson <micah@riseup.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:38:28 -0800, Andrew Pollock <apollock@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 06:22:19PM -0500, micah wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hey Andrew, any progress on this?
> > 
> > It's all ready to go, I'm just waiting for upstream to make a release that
> > addresses
> > 
> > 	E: libpam-barada: possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl
> > 
> > and then it'll be good to go.
> 
> Excellent! Are you interested in some testing? I'd be interested to give
> it a try myself, as this is how I stumbled on the ITP, because I was
> wanting it.
> 
> I wonder if barada could be linked against gnutls instead?

Looking at it a little closer I actually don't see why barada should
link to openssl at all, it doesn't do any transport-layer security and
is just using the crypto primitives from openssl: openssl/rand.h and
openssl/hmac.h -- pretty straightforward crypto primitives that are
provided by gcrypt. Although it is not the same API (and the header
files aren't named the same), they are conceptually equivalent, so I
think that the right thing to do in this case would be to use gcrypt
instead of openssl...

Switching to that shouldn't be that hard actually, I think even easier
than working out the boring licensing issues.

micah

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