Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 20:08:44 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, Victor Salaman <salaman@teknos.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: openssl in -current Message-ID: <42158.951019724@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 19 Feb 2000 19:28:25 PST." <38AF5F59.A0BEC49@gorean.org>
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> Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Victor Salaman wrote: > > > > > I personally think that it's braindead to add openssl to the system > > > and stripout parts of it (RSA & IDEA). Don't get me wrong, I love to > > > have > > Pardon me for coming late to the party, but what was the rationale behind > putting openssl into the source anyway? Given the rsa/no rsa problems, not > to mention the US vs. the world problems, what were the benefits that > outweighed the complications? Note, I'm not trying to be critical here, I'm > just interested in the thought process behind the decision. I think the idea was to eventually bundle openssh into the system, but this now look comparatively difficult enough that I'm definitely having second thoughts about the whole thing. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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