GnuPG and OpenSSL

M Taylor mctylr at privacy.nb.ca
Fri Apr 16 00:00:14 CEST 2004


On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 04:29:01PM -0300, Marcos Antônio Cavenaghi wrote:
> 
> are the algorithms source codes (X.c) in GnuPG the same as the ones used 
> in OpenSSL?

If you mean, are the source code files (rsa.c) in GnuPG the same as
OpenSSL? No. Different source code files, different licenses.

<http://www.openssl.org/source/license.html> (OpenSSL)
<http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html> (GnuPG)

If you mean, are there same algorithms in both GnuPG and OpenSSL? 
Then yes, they both implement a number of common algorithms,
and as well there is a fair bit of non-overlap (not all algorithms are
implemented in both). E.g. both have RSA, DSA/DSS, AES, MD-5, SHA-1,
and Triple-DES.



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