Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 01:55:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Arne "Wörner" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com> To: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-05:21.openssl Message-ID: <20051012085509.42394.qmail@web30310.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20051012082550.GH2482@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
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--- Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-Oct-12 00:12:35 -0700, Arne Wörner wrote: > >Btw: Why should the string "OpenSSL" be contained in each and > >every executable, that might use OpenSSL? > > OpenSSL has a version string of the form "OpenSSL 0.9.7e 25 Oct > 2004" embedded in it. > As far as I understand static linking, only the symbols that r used r linked into the executable... So: Why should that version string be linked into the executable? Is it a necessary part of the SSL protocol to say the version? -Arne __________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/
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