"... (whether of not you choose to include OpenSSL's line count)..."
Why does someone just assume everyone wants to use OpenSSL?
I have never intentionally chosen to use libssl or other SSL/TLS libraries and I never will. (That wont stop this person from replying to a comment that has nothing to do with SSL/TLS from telling us how we can use SSL/TLS to get whatever it is we are after.) Not gonna happen with this user.
The reason I am interested in Curve25519 is precisely because I am not interested in OpenSSL. I am interested in Curve25519 because I like the type of software the author writes.
That author writes what I consider to be relatively small, fast, portable, flexible software. The authors of OpenSSL write the sort of software I do not like to use, for a variety of reasons. There are too many to list. OpenSSL, and SSL/TLS in general, is nothing more than a PITA to me.
It is a nuisance.
I do not care if SSL libraries offer Curve25519. I was already using Curve25519 before they adopted it. I am not interested in SSL/TLS. I do not care how much anyone else likes it.
I am interested in alternatives to SSL/TLS and the prevailing web PKI. The author of Curve25519 provided prototypes for one such alternative.
I do not care what someone else thinks of these, when that person can offer zero technical analysis to support his snarky opinions. The only thing that matters to me is what I think of the software. If I like it, I use it.
I use CurveCP everyday on my own network. If somebody giving free "security advice" on a web forum has a problem with the fact I like some software, then they should take it up with the author of the software who published it.
Me, I am just a satisfied end user. I know nothing.
Why does someone just assume everyone wants to use OpenSSL?
I have never intentionally chosen to use libssl or other SSL/TLS libraries and I never will. (That wont stop this person from replying to a comment that has nothing to do with SSL/TLS from telling us how we can use SSL/TLS to get whatever it is we are after.) Not gonna happen with this user.
The reason I am interested in Curve25519 is precisely because I am not interested in OpenSSL. I am interested in Curve25519 because I like the type of software the author writes.
That author writes what I consider to be relatively small, fast, portable, flexible software. The authors of OpenSSL write the sort of software I do not like to use, for a variety of reasons. There are too many to list. OpenSSL, and SSL/TLS in general, is nothing more than a PITA to me.
It is a nuisance.
I do not care if SSL libraries offer Curve25519. I was already using Curve25519 before they adopted it. I am not interested in SSL/TLS. I do not care how much anyone else likes it.
I am interested in alternatives to SSL/TLS and the prevailing web PKI. The author of Curve25519 provided prototypes for one such alternative.
I do not care what someone else thinks of these, when that person can offer zero technical analysis to support his snarky opinions. The only thing that matters to me is what I think of the software. If I like it, I use it.
I use CurveCP everyday on my own network. If somebody giving free "security advice" on a web forum has a problem with the fact I like some software, then they should take it up with the author of the software who published it.
Me, I am just a satisfied end user. I know nothing.