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Date:      Sat, 15 Jan 2000 22:38:31 -0500 (EST)
From:      Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/secure/lib Makefile src/secure/usr.bin Makefile
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001152236480.803-100000@green.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001151804090.53554-100000@hub.freebsd.org>

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On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Brian Feldman wrote:
> 
> >   Log:
> >   We cannot have libcrypto, and therefore OpenSSL at all, without RSA.
> >   If you need examples of breakage, I'm ready to provide more than a
> >   few.
> 
> Brian, there was no call to unilaterally back this out without discussing
> it with me first. There are certainly many reasons to have libcrypto
> without RSA, and indeed anyone who wants to use libcrypto in a commercial
> setting will have to make do that way (and obviously any ports which
> require RSA cannot be used by them). As you well know, RSAref support is
> coming; in the meantime, libcrypto and libssl work perfectly well for
> OpenSSL ports which don't require RSA (w3m-ssl is one I've tested).

In the meantime, it also breaks (e.g.) OpenSSH.  This is _not_ acceptable.
Yes, there was a call: it had to be out ASAP before it broke more people
than it probably already has.  I hope that's not too many.  Think like a
user: do you want broken apps?

> Kris

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 Brian Fundakowski Feldman           \  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!  /
 green@FreeBSD.org                    `------------------------------'



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