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> On Mar 27, 2019, at 8:31 AM, Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 08:23:13AM -0500, Lonnie Abelbeck wrote:
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>>> On Mar 27, 2019, at 6:22 AM, Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've been working on an implementation of the new NTP public-key
>>> authentication called Network Time Security (NTS). Its specification
>>> will hopefully be finalized in near future.
>> -snip-
>>> Nettle and gnutls development files are needed to build chrony with
>>> NTS support.
>>
>> Hi Miroslav,
>>
>> Will OpenSSL (instead of nettle and gnutls) also be supported down the road ?
>
> Probably not. The license of OpenSSL is not compatible with chrony's
> licensing (GPLv2). Do you see any issues with gnutls?
For embedded systems with small footprints, including only one crypto library (OpenSSL) is preferred.
Many packages still only support OpenSSL.
Lonnie
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