Current status of --enable-crypto

[Eric S. Raymond]

Daniel Franke <dfoxfranke at gmail.com>:
> If SHA-0 has ever been used in NTP that's news to me. It was broken pretty
> quickly after publication and never saw much use. Pretty sure any
> documentation which refers to it is confused.

There were repeated references to "SHA and SHA-1".  I don't see how that
could reasonablt disambiguate to anything but "SHA and SHA-1".

> I would prefer that OpenSSL implementations of primitives get used when
> available, for performance reasons which translate directly to improved
> precision.

Well, Matt has expressed a parallel desire.  Maybe he'll ship a patch.
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