In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 4 May 2006 17:14:01 -0700, Randy Turner 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

rturner> Is there a brief on the reasons why someone would want to use
rturner> OpenSSL 0.9.7j  or choose to use 0.9.8b?

There are two answers to that.  You nailed one of them:

rturner> I believe one of the items is that the 0.9.7 branch can be
rturner> part of a solution for FIPS compliance, where 0.9.8b is "not
rturner> there" yet.

The other answer is that there are incompatibilities, both in source
and in binary, between the 0.9.7 series and the 0.9.8 one, and
changing from one to the other has consequences for the software that
you link with OpenSSL.

Cheers,
Richard

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