Sven Hartge wrote:

Um 04:43 Uhr am 18.02.06 schrieb W B Hacker:


With fewer than ten servers running Exim, I cannot say for *sure*, but with OpenSSL on FreeBSD this has never been an issue for us with Exim, Qmail, Courier-MTA, DBMail, several IMAP/POP daemons, or anything else that uses SSL/TLS/or SSH.


*BSD behaves different than Linux > 2.6.11

For which I am eternally grateful!

Just lazy, I guess.  ;-)

so you are comparing apples and lemons.

No.  Volume of juice.

AFAIK, *BSD and Linux *can* use either one.

Or both.

Not that they are equal in all respects.

Open or parts therof are a 'natural' for BSD, but I have from time to time had GNUTLS alongside for apps that wanted it.

I'm agnostic.

> Also gnutls uses far more entropy than openssl.


Sounds advantageous, security-wise, on the face of it.
- Providing it doesn't break in some other way...

...as the OP seems to have found...

Bill





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