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Date:      Sat, 19 Feb 2000 20:08:44 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
To:        Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, Victor Salaman <salaman@teknos.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: openssl in -current 
Message-ID:  <42158.951019724@zippy.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 19 Feb 2000 19:28:25 PST." <38AF5F59.A0BEC49@gorean.org> 

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> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Victor Salaman wrote:
> > 
> > > I personally think that it's braindead to add openssl to the system
> > > and stripout parts of it (RSA & IDEA). Don't get me wrong, I love to
> > > have
> 
> Pardon me for coming late to the party, but what was the rationale behind
> putting openssl into the source anyway? Given the rsa/no rsa problems, not
> to mention the US vs. the world problems, what were the benefits that
> outweighed the complications? Note, I'm not trying to be critical here, I'm
> just interested in the thought process behind the decision.

I think the idea was to eventually bundle openssh into the system, but
this now look comparatively difficult enough that I'm definitely
having second thoughts about the whole thing.

- Jordan


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