Hi,
Is there a brief on the reasons why someone would want to use OpenSSL
0.9.7j or choose to use 0.9.8b?
I believe one of the items is that the 0.9.7 branch can be part of a
solution for FIPS compliance, where 0.9.8b is "not there" yet.
Is this correct? I'm at a point where I need to decide one release or
the other, so I was curious if there was a pros and cons list
or other way about going forward with 0.9.7j or 0.9.8b
Thanks,
Randy
On May 4, 2006, at 7:57 AM, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote:
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OpenSSL version 0.9.8b and 0.9.7j released
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OpenSSL - The Open Source toolkit for SSL/TLS
http://www.openssl.org/
The OpenSSL project team is pleased to announce the release of
version 0.9.8b of our open source toolkit for SSL/TLS. This new
OpenSSL version is a bugfix release and incorporates
changes and bugfixes to the toolkit. For a complete list of
changes, please see http://www.openssl.org/source/exp/CHANGES.
We also release 0.9.7j, which contains several FIPS updates and
bugfixes
compared to 0.9.7i. It is the first full release of OpenSSL that
can link
against a validated FIPS module.
These updates contain several bugfixes to resolve compilation
issues under
Win32 and errors in CA creation via the CA.pl script.
We consider OpenSSL 0.9.8b to be the best version of OpenSSL
available and we strongly recommend that users of older versions
upgrade as soon as possible. OpenSSL 0.9.8b is available for
download via HTTP and FTP from the following master locations (you
can find the various FTP mirrors under
http://www.openssl.org/source/mirror.html):
* http://www.openssl.org/source/
* ftp://ftp.openssl.org/source/
For those who want or have to stay with the 0.9.7 series of
OpenSSL, we strongly recommend that you upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.7j
as soon as possible. It's available in the same location as
0.9.8b.
The distribution file names are:
* openssl-0.9.8b.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: 12cedbeb6813a0d7919dbf1f82134b86
SHA1 checksum: 99565db630a044fa484d4f91006a31908f262246
* openssl-0.9.7j.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: 79dd939266b069e7aca587e6ab16a055
SHA1 checksum: 5277fa5a18d52fb0960e279fdbe198823f65da0b
The checksums were calculated using the following commands:
openssl md5 openssl-0.9.*.tar.gz
openssl sha1 openssl-0.9.*.tar.gz
Yours,
The OpenSSL Project Team...
Mark J. Cox Nils Larsch Ulf Möller
Ralf S. Engelschall Ben Laurie Andy Polyakov
Dr. Stephen Henson Richard Levitte Geoff Thorpe
Lutz Jänicke Bodo Möller
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