[zeromq-dev] Building curvezmq

[Pieter Hintjens]

Building without libsodium makes no sense for CurveZMQ, indeed.

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Laurent Alebarde <l.alebarde at free.fr> wrote:
> Hi Pieter,
>
> As you saw it in my curvezmq pull request and Gentoo ebuild, I am concerned
> with the way curvezmq is built. In my opinion, for a production build,
> curvezmq SHALL be built with libsodium.
>
> At present time, it builds in "either way". To keep the "no option" CurveCP
> philosophy towards security, wouldn't it be a good thing to require
> libsodium for curvezmq build ?
>
> We cannot assume, because we are here on security, that since libzmq now
> requires it, curvezmq is of course built with it.
>
> But I admit I am a little paranoïd ;-) .
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Laurent.
>
> Le 21/08/2013 09:21, Pieter Hintjens a écrit :
>
> These instructions are out of date, I'll fix them. Since July libzmq
> has used libsodium. CurveZMQ doesn't mind either way.
>
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 1:44 AM, James Gatannah
> <james.gatannah at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On the github page, the instructions have us building/installing libzmq,
> czmq libsodium, and finally curvezmq.
>
> configure for libzmq (and possibly czmq?) checks for the presence of
> libsodium, then skips some portion of the build if it isn't installed first.
>
> Is it better to build/install libsodium as the first step? (That's what I've
> wound up doing so far, though I haven't had time to do any testing belong
> make check). Or is the documentation correct? If it's the latter, would it
> make sense to add a note to avoid confusion?
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
>
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