[Interest] OpenSSL AES Encryption

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Tue Jul 9 18:28:54 CEST 2013


On terça-feira, 9 de julho de 2013 15.37.51, Lucas.Betschart at crypto.ch wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Since Qt already uses OpenSSL for networking are there any plans to add the
> encryption capabilities of OpenSSL (AES etc.) to Qt? So far there seems to
> be no regular encryption in Qt included.

We're forbidden from providing general encryption routines in Qt due to US 
export laws. At least, in QtNetwork.

This might be acceptable in a separate add-on, one which may be missing from 
certain builds where the export laws would restrict cryptographic code and 
functionality.
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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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