From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 28 10:35:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from goku.cl.msu.edu (goku.cl.msu.edu [35.8.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F88C37B95D for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 10:35:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dervish@goku.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from dervish@localhost) by goku.cl.msu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA92299 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 13:42:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dervish) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 13:42:43 -0500 From: Bush Doctor To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: international RSA code Message-ID: <20000228134243.I82602@goku.cl.msu.edu> References: <20000228172014.ECEBD1CE6@overcee.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000228172014.ECEBD1CE6@overcee.netplex.com.au>; from peter@netplex.com.au on Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 01:20:14AM +0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386 WWW-Home-Page: http://bantu.cl.msu.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Out of da blue Peter Wemm aka (peter@netplex.com.au) said: > I've added a port, ports/security/librsaintl, that should build and install > the librsaINTL.* files in /usr/lib, in case you did a binary install or > are stuck with the USA source. > > The port is quite a hack, but I'd be interested to know how it works for folks. > Note that there have been several versions, so make sure you've got the current > version before trying to use it. :-) > > This builds the optimized RSA code designed for use by the ssl code. It > also is used by openssh. RSAREF requires big number format conversion, this > code does not. RSAREF is also limited to 1024 bit keys, this code has no > such limitation. I'm still not clear on the issue of RSAREF :( In the US do we need to have the rsaref port installed in order to use openssl/openssh in the source tree? If not then in /etc/make.conf we can set "RSAREF=NO" and buildworld will DTRT with respect to openssl/openssh? thanxs ... > > Cheers, > -Peter > > > #;^) -- f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng. bush doctor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message