Why is OpenSSL needed in the official client? - page 4.

misterbigg

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Quote from: CIYAM on September 29, 2012, 10:41:25 AM

Indeed I think that it should be possible to go a bit more "minimalist" (I personally don't use boost either for the same reason).

And that was my next question, why is boost needed?

My preference is to have a repository that requires no external dependencies, just pull the repo and press the "build" button. I find the use of Qt quite disturbing as well. Last I checked "slots:" is not standard C++. And I don't think that the official client can be compiled in either Xcode or Visual Studio (doesn't it require some Qt tools to build?), which is quite shocking.

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Quote from: misterbigg on September 29, 2012, 10:38:52 AM

Open source libraries for all the operations that you described are available, most of them in cryptopp.

Indeed I think that it should be possible to go a bit more "minimalist" (I personally don't use boost either for the same reason).

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So no actual SSL? Because OpenSSL is a bulky nightmare to build and use. I'm contemplating writing my own bitcoind / GUI front end, but I would much like to avoid OpenSSL at all costs.

Open source libraries for all the operations that you described are available, most of them in cryptopp.

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We use it for ECDSA signing and verification, to generate private keys, for the SHA256 and RIPEMD160 hashing functions. and for AES (used in wallet encryption).

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It is used to do the ECDSA public/private key generation as well as the SHA256 and RIPEMD hashes.

Oh - yes - also the wallet encryption would be using OpenSSL functions.

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Simple question, why is OpenSSL needed in the official client?

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