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Re: [tor-bugs] #8014 [Tor]: nacl library not recognised during tor build
#8014: nacl library not recognised during tor build
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Reporter: mr-4 | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Tor | Version: Tor: 0.2.4.8-alpha
Resolution: invalid | Keywords:
Parent: | Points:
Actualpoints: |
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Changes (by rransom):
* status: new => closed
* resolution: => invalid
Comment:
The Curve25519 implementations included with Tor are considerably faster
than the reference implementation in NaCl. Do not try to force Tor to
link to a copy of NaCl whose build process chose the reference
implementation of Curve25519.
Also:
* No one should be distributing binary packages of NaCl. NaCl's build
process chooses the fastest implementation of a cryptographic primitive
which works on the processor and OS on which it was built; it can quite
easily choose one that won't work or has poor performance on a different
box.
* No one should be distributing packages which claim to be NaCl but have
some of the pieces removed -- that's a recipe for confusion. Many of the
cryptographic primitive implementations in NaCl (as of the last time I
looked at it) do not come with source code; if your OS distribution has a
policy against distributing such packages, they shouldn't ship a
fake/mutilated NaCl package.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8014#comment:1>
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