Re: Cryptokit.Random unsuitable in cooperative multithreaded systems

[Thomas Gazagnaire <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> For Mirage, we need to extract out the C functions (mainly for SHA) 
> separately from the zlib bindings, and port the ones we want in 
> mirage-platform/xen/runtime.  I would drop the zlib bindings until we get a 
> chance to implement them in OCaml (about a day's work).  It's also not 
> essential to have zlib in our libraries at present, except for SSH 
> compression (which is optional).  SHA, however, is used in a lot of places.

zlib is heavily used in Git, so that could be quite good to have a pure zlib 
implementation as well. I might look into that then ...

Thomas