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Date:      Sat, 19 Feb 2000 20:20:15 -0800 (PST)
From:      William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Victor Salaman <salaman@teknos.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>
Subject:   Re: openssl in -current
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000219202015.wwoods@cybcon.com>
In-Reply-To: <42158.951019724@zippy.cdrom.com>

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How does OpenBSD do it? Cant we do what they do?

On 20-Feb-00 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>> 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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