From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 21 14: 0:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF63437B443; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:00:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id OAA72673; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:00:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:00:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: kosmos Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Will OpenSSL-0.9.6 go into 4.1.1? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, kosmos wrote: > Hello, > > OpenSSL released a new beta today, (0.9.6) apparently with their > own implementation of the RSA algorithm. > > First, is there going to be a 4.1.1 release of FreeBSD? FreeBSD already includes the native OpenSSL implementation of RSA - this code hasn't changed in the latest beta. > If so, are there any plans to include this in the 4.1.1 release? Nope - I will import it in -current after the official release of 0.9.6, and if there are no problems observed after 3 or 4 weeks, will bring it back to -stable. This is a critical part of the system because people rely on it for things like SSL webservers and OpenSSH. > (Right now an alpha version is included with the OS [0.9.5-a].) The 'a' doesnt mean alpha, it was a bugfix release just after 0.9.5 Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message