Current status of --enable-crypto

Gary E. Miller gem at rellim.com
Fri Jan 27 19:55:13 UTC 2017


Yo Eric!

On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 14:42:16 -0500
"Eric S. Raymond" <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:

> Gary E. Miller <gem at rellim.com>:
> > And, don't forget, libisc is still in the tree with its own copies
> > of md5 and sha1.  Nuke it!  
> 
> Er, we can't do tha id we wabt the OpenSSL deoendency to be optional.

So why does openssl need to be optional?  Which of our target OS does
not have openssl?  Maybe some do for religious reasons, but then they
must have libressl or similar.  I see no reason to support any OS that
does not have some library support for crypto.

RGDS
GARY
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