On Sundayen den 13 January 2002 08.15, guran wrote: > On Sunday 13 January 2002 6:56 am, Vincent Danen wrote: > > On Tue Jan 08, 2002 at 07:21:48PM +0100, Oden Eriksson wrote: > > > > Name : openssl Relocations: (not > > > > relocateable) Version : 0.9.6b Vendor: > > > > MandrakeSoft Release : 5mdk Build Date: > > > > Tue Jan 8 17:05:44 > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > - 2 patches to follow French policy: > > > > - Patch5: Limit SSL ciphers available to 128 bits > > > > - Patch6: Temptatively disable triple-key triple DES but keep > > > > double-key triple DES > > > > > > Will there be a full version somewhere? > > > > What would be ideal is a build command like --with fullcipher or > > something in the package so someone outside of France could just do > > "rpm --rebuild --with fullcipher openssl*src.rpm". > > I think that Mdk should have to use a sticker to every package sold, > telling the buyer of their product that it is made a criple because of > French law. > > Thanks to Oden, for pointing this out to me.
It's not unique to Mandrake, Redhat has also a crippled openssl package, I think they also remove(d?) RSA from it. But since the RSA patent expired I don't know the current status of the Redhat openssl package. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Oden Eriksson, Deserve-IT Networks, Jokkmokk, Sweden. | Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586 | Current uptime with kernel 2.4.17-2mdksmp: 27 minutes | cpu0 @ 799.53 bm, fan 4560 rpm, temp +29�C | cpu1 @ 801.17 bm, fan 4500 rpm, temp +29.0�C
