From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 19 22:56:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB46337BFDD; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 22:55:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA11256; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 22:55:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 22:55:26 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Doug Barton Cc: "Victor A. Salaman" , "'Jordan K. Hubbard'" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: openssl in -current In-Reply-To: <38AF8F40.CB06E7C7@gorean.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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