Straight from the maintainer. Hi Chad, I don't think I would be comfortable with this; past conversations on the list have suggested a sizeable population of the users is avoiding boost for one reason or another and there was some pushback in terms of even using boost in the library in a way that would require it for basic functionality. This change would leave these users high and dry. I'll admit I perhaps didn't read your proposal as carefully as I should have; I had been under the impression that you would be creating more or less a boost.crypto that provided crypto functionality that happened to use botan internally but did not expose much or any of botan's API directly. Sorry for the miscommunication/mess. :( -Jack I don't know what this means in terms of the project - whether we'll go with a different project or just borrow bits from Botan. I am truly sorry I didn't look into this earlier; it was entirely my fault and I apologize for not looking into this issue earlier. Chad Seibert _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:W...