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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Hello all,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I&#8217;ve been looking into FIPS
but couldn&#8217;t help falling over the Squeak Pluggin for OpenSSL and
Stunnel. </span></font><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'><a href="https://lists.wisc.edu/read/messages?id=181840">https://lists.wisc.edu/read/messages?id=181840</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><a
href="https://lists.wisc.edu/read/messages?id=183375">https://lists.wisc.edu/read/messages?id=183375</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>&nbsp;&nbsp;I haven&#8217;t tried them yet but was wondering
if anyone else has. &nbsp;Does it make sense to move forward with our own FIPS
certification, or would it make sense to tightly integrate both openSSL and
Stunnel into squeak instead?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Does anyone have any thoughts about the benefits and
drawbacks of having the cryptographic code be an external black box? &nbsp;Are
there greater benefits to our having implemented our own code, for education
and flexibility &#8230;&nbsp; ? &nbsp;Personally I would prefer having the code
be in squeak, but I thought the question worth asking.&nbsp; Should we do both?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thoughts?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Ron Teitelbaum<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Squeak Cryptography Team Leader<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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