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Date:      Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:20:00 +1100
From:      "Richard Grace" <rgrace@aapt.com.au>
To:        <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Cc:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Problem with OpenSSL port
Message-ID:  <sa66c35e.082@aaptmailmta.aapt.com.au>

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>>> "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> 01/17/01 05:22pm >>>

> In that case my recommendation is to ditch
> openssl and use the older ssh and ssleay.  I've never gotten
> a good compile of openssh/openssl and friends on anything
> but the very latest of a UNIX system.  It's like the open
> developers go out of their way to make their shit NOT
> compile on basic systems like Solaris 2.5.1+gcc, things
> like that.

Yeah, the problem is with the licencing.  I'd have to use such an early =
version of ssh & ssleay to get around the commercial usage clause.

Solaris (among others) does not have a /dev/random.  You can substitute by =
using another sufficiently random device, or install a package which =
supplies a random device.  SUNWski comes to mind.

Richard Grace
Unix Systems Administrator
AAPT Limited




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