Re: [freenet-tech] Technology / Features

[Goran Thyni <goran at kirra dot net>]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 09:31:56AM -0800, Adam Megacz wrote:
> What's missing? Crypto- and network-wise, I've gotten a full SSL
> implementation running under GCJ (http://www.xwt.org/tinyssl).

freenet has all crypto code it needs in itself.
It is more a question of syntax not handled by gcj
at the moment.
 
> You can also run Sun's bytecodes through GCJ (for example, to replace
> libgcj's broken java.security.*), but the resulting binary probably
> can't be redistributed.

A way around syntax problems is to just compile .class files
generate by jikes/javac with gcj. But this is no fun debugging.

> I've also found that GCJ kicks the crap out of HotSpot on crypto
> operations. For example, TinySSL's RSA handshake runs literally ten
> times faster on the same hardware (BouncyCastle crypto library).

Sound good.

happy hacking,
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Göran

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