Hi,

On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 04:55:40PM -0500, Selva Nair wrote:
> > (Also, the PR isn't exactly proceeding smoothly... no idea why the
> > vcpkg maintainer does not want to see why Lev's PR is an improvement
> > of the situation)
> 
> I didn't realize there is a pushback for the patch..May be he needs to see
> https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/9520,
> CVE-2019-5443 <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5443> and our own
> CVE?

Not sure why.  Maybe it helps if you add another "pro" voice, with these
references?

But on the other hand, he's right about "what if a user installs $program
to a different location?" - thus:

> I have a patch setting OPENSSL_CONF etc using SetEnvironmentVariableW() but
> it needs more testing especially for OPENSSL_ENGINES and OPENSSL_MODULES in
> 3.0.
> Is _putenv preferred?

... this one sounds like a better way forward.

I have no opinion on _putenv() vs. SetEnvironmentVariableW() - this is
Windows API stuff, so whatever MS thinks we should be using...

gert
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