In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 05 May 2006 02:25:57 +0200 (CEST), Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
richard> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 4 May 2006 17:14:01 -0700, Randy Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: richard> richard> rturner> Is there a brief on the reasons why someone would want to use richard> rturner> OpenSSL 0.9.7j or choose to use 0.9.8b? richard> richard> There are two answers to that. You nailed one of them: richard> richard> rturner> I believe one of the items is that the 0.9.7 branch can be richard> rturner> part of a solution for FIPS compliance, where 0.9.8b is "not richard> rturner> there" yet. richard> richard> The other answer is that there are incompatibilities, both in source richard> and in binary, between the 0.9.7 series and the 0.9.8 one, and richard> changing from one to the other has consequences for the software that richard> you link with OpenSSL. For some reason, I removed the next paragraph...: So apart from deciding if you want to have the FIPS code (0.9.7j) or not, you need to decide if you want to take the consequences of an upgrade to a more feature rich version (0.9.8) series, or if you want to take the easy route (stay with the 0.9.7 series). Cheers, Richard ----- Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. -- Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://richard.levitte.org/ "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -- C.S. Lewis ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
