Hi, I'm working on deploying OpenCA on a Debian system, and I'm really
impressed with it so far.  I am, however, running into a stumbling
block, the dependency on OpenSSL 0.9.7 (still unreleased).  Many
Debian packages are compiled against the libssl and libcrypto from
0.9.6, and by having 0.9.7-beta3 in place I keep finding I have to
recompile key programs (eg. ssh and apache's mod-ssl), making it
difficult to use this system in a production environment; security
updates on this machine are likely to be too time consuming with all
the hand compiled software.

Meanwhile, the only 0.9.7 dependency I could find mentioned on the
lists is a requirement for the -pubkey interface on the openssl
command line utility.

My question is this, can I safely get away with giving OpenCA a
statically linked openssl 0.9.7, and leave the Debian 0.9.6 packages
in place?  If none of the code directly uses new features of libssl or
libcrypto I would think that should be safe, and it would make it much
easier for me to use this software.  

Thank you very much in advance for any insight you can throw on this.

Sincerely
-David Zoll (Gleef), Programmer/Analyst
NYS Credit Union League


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