My plans, suggestions and whatever

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Fri Feb 8 22:22:50 UTC 2019


Gary E. Miller via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> > I'm debugging on OpenSSL 1.1.1a which supports TLS1.3 but is not
> > widely deployed yet.
> 
> For good reason.  From their wiki:
> 
> https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/TLS1.3
> 
>     "The OpenSSL git master branch (and the 1.1.1-pre9 beta version)
>     contain our development TLSv1.3 code which is based on the final
>     version of RFC8446 and can be used for testing purposes (i.e. it is
>     not for production use)."
> 
> Note: "not for production use"

We probably can't ship with anything lower than 1.1.1b, anyway.  Not
according to Martin Langer. And it's not out yet.

There are strategic reasons I don't have any problem saying we're not going to
support down-version libcrypto.  I don't think Cisco will mind that, either.
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