From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 19 22: 5:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAB5037BE21; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 22:05:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA234142; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 01:04:47 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <42178.951019790@zippy.cdrom.com> References: <42178.951019790@zippy.cdrom.com> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 01:05:07 -0500 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Kris Kennaway From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: openssl in -current Cc: Doug Barton , Victor Salaman , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 8:09 PM -0800 2/19/00, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Having _a_ general-purpose cryptography toolkit in the base system allows > > us to add in all sorts of cool things to FreeBSD (https support for fetch, > > openssh, random cryptographic enhancements elsewhere). OpenSSL just > > happens to be the only decent freely-available (BSDL) toolkit. > >And I still think that this is a reasonable objective, the current >gymnastics for making it happen making me wonder whether or not that >would not be an objective better moved to sometime in September. This will be a lot easier once the patent expires. We would probably be better off sticking with the ports-version until then, so we don't have to delay 4.0-release until all the issues are sorted out. If 4.0 is delayed, I want it delayed for things which are actually busted, and not to move features from the ports collection to the base system. I think everyone agrees that having a cryptography toolkit in the base system would be great, but we don't have to have it for *this* release, and there are no "cool things" for *this* release which depend on some cryptography toolkit being part of the base system. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message