dropbear with external libtommath/libtomcrypt

Matt Johnston matt at ucc.asn.au
Fri Apr 29 22:15:32 AWST 2016


On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 09:31:09AM +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> Thanks. Where did you see Debian using it? Looking at
> E.G. http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dropbear/dropbear_2016.73-1.debian.tar.xz
> I see they configure with --enable-bundled-libtom.

You're right - not sure why I hadn't noticed that. Usually
I've been building my own debs with Dropbear's own debian/

As far as I know Fedora still use system libtom*.

> Checking here, a static build with external libtom* is unfortunately 25%
> bigger (75K). Is that to be expected?

It sounds plausible. Building with --gc-sections and the
other suggestions in SMALL might help?

Cheers,
Matt


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