Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 22:55:26 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: "Victor A. Salaman" <salaman@teknos.com>, "'Jordan K. Hubbard'" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: openssl in -current Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002192253270.11022-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <38AF8F40.CB06E7C7@gorean.org>
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On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Doug Barton wrote: > > This doesn't help. The RSA source not being there isn't the problem, the > > problem is that there are two different binary versions depending on how > > you build it (with rsaref or not). > > So we do what we do with DES. By default you have openssl without RSA, and > the RSA version is available as an after market distribution. All that's > required is the work necessary to make the two openssl distributions. Already done. > As for the ports, most of the ports that have the ability to use > RSA also have the ability to turn it off (TMK), usually through a > configure --variable. The ones that don't can have warnings spit out. > Until the patent runs out, leaving RSA as a port seems to be the only > reasonable alternative. This actually isn't true. Things like openssh, sslwrap, sslproxy, stunnel, etc, all require it by design. But as I've already pointed out, when a user tries to install the port and they dont have RSA, they'll get a warning telling them how to get the package which provides it. Kris ---- "How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man?" "Eight!" "That was a rhetorical question!" "Oh..then, seven!" -- Homer Simpson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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